The Man of Galilee

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THE MAN OF
GALILEE

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Man of Galilee

WILLIAM EDGAR GEIL

Author of "The Isle that is called Patmos'
i(,A Yankee on the Yangtze," etc.

NINE MAPS

NEW YORK

The International Committee of
Young Men's Christian Associations

LIBRARY of CONGRESS
Two CoDies Received

JUN 29 1906

OooyrigM Entry

-LASS CL/XXC. No.
COPY B.

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Copyright 1906,

BY

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF YOUNG MEN'S
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS.

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J AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MAN OP
GALILEE

Reader, may I have a quiet but earnest word with
you about The Man of Galilee ? Do you wonder
how I came to compile this book? I will tell
you. It was my strong desire to visit Palestine a
second time, and while in that land to read the record
of our Lord's life in the words of the four
evangelists. It was my purpose while doing this to
travel in the footsteps of Christ, To illustrate, I
thought to go from Jordan where Jesus was
baptised to Cana of Galilee and thence to Jerusalem
and back to Samaria and Cana, thus completing the
Master's first journey, and afterwards the other
journeys. Well, I searched for a continuous narra-
tive of the life of Christ in Scriptural language, and
found several by which I profited in my studies, but
none answered my desire. So I made a book, and
took it with me to the Holy Land, but was com-
pelled by observatitns made on the spot to modify
its arrangements, and here it is with side notes,
which I believe will assist the reader into the
mysteries of the Master's life. On my return to
London a gentleman said to me, " If you had a
great need for this kind of a book there may be

vi INTRODUCTION

others ; publish it." I consented. Friend, this
has been the most entrancing work I ever did.
Several times the hour for eating had long passed
before I thought of food. I hope that in the read-
ing of it and in the study of the Man of Galilee you
will become equally absorbed. May it lead you to
live a life, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, that shall
please Him.

Sincerely yours,

WILLIAM EDGAK GEIL.

Doylestown,

Pennsylvania,

United States of America.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Birth to Baptism S

II. The First Forty Days 17

III. The First Ministry 23

IV. The Mountain Ministry 35

V. The Green Glens of Galilee ... 55

VI. The Far North ------ 83

VII. The Jerusalem Ministry 99

VIII. The Far East - 113

IX. The Last Week - 142

The Final Forty Days 189

MAPS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Birth to Baptism 2

II. The First Forty Days 16

III. The First Ministry 22

IV. The Mountain Ministry ----- 34
V. The Green Glens of Galilee - 54

YI. The Far North ------ 82

VII. The Jerusalem Ministry ----- 98

VIII. The Far East - 112

IX. The Final Forty Days - - - . - - 188

E 3YPT

THE MAN OF GALILEE

OHAPTEE I

JSivtb to Baptism

Being in the form of God, He counted it not a prize to
be on an equality with God, but emptied Himself
taking the form of a servant, being made in the
likeness of men.— Phil, 2 : 6 R. V.

^^HEEE was in the the days of Herod Luke t . 3-W|
( [the Great], the king of Judaea, a Elijah 'the

^1^ certain priest named Zacharias, ?r?phcth

of the course of Abia : and his Lord.
wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and Mal*:&
her name was Elisabeth. And they were both
righteous before God, walking in all the command-
ments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And
they had no child, because that Elisabeth was
barren, and they both were now well stricken in
years.

And it came to pass, that while he executed the
priest's office before God in the order of his course,
according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot
was to burn incense when he went into the temple
of the Lord. And the whole multitude of the
people were praying without at the time of incense.
And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord
standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
And wThen Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and
fear fell upon him.

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4 THE kAtt OF GALILEE

But the angel said unto him, * Fear not, Zachar-
ias : for thy prayer is heard ; and thy wife Elisabeth
shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name
John [God's fa\our] . And thou shalt have joy and
gladness ; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For
he shall be great in the sight of the Lord,
and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink ; and
he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even
from his mother's womb. And many of the
children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their
God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and
power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to
the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of
the just ; to make ready a people prepared for the
Lord.' And Zacharias said unto the angel, ' Where-
by shall I know this ? for I am an old man, and my
wife well stricken in years/ And the angel answering
said unto him, ' I am Gabriel that stand in
the presence of God ; and am sent to speak
unto thee, and to shew thee these glad
tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not
able to speak, until the day that these things shall
be performed, because thou believest not my words,
which shall be fulfilled in their season/ And the
people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he
tarried so long in the temple. And when he came
out, he could not speak unto them : and they per-
ceived that he had seen a vision in the temple : for
he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
And it came to pass, that as soon as the days of his
ministration were accomplished, he departed to
his own house.

And after those days his wife Elisabeth con-
ceived, and hid herself five months, saying, ' Thus
hath the Lord dealt with me in the da) s wherein
he looked on me, to take away my reproach among
men/

BIRTH TO BAPTISM 5

And in the sixth month the angel .
Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of 0f David6
Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin f° j^flefh
espoused to a man whose name was Rom. i .• 3.
Joseph, of the house of David ; and
the virgin's name was Mary. And the
angel came in unto her, and said, ' Hail,
thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is
with thee : blessed art thou among women.'
\nd when she saw him, she was troubled at his
saying, and cast in her mind what manner of saluta-
tion this should be. And the angel said unto her,
' Fear not, Mary : for thou hast found favour with
God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy
womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name
JESUS [Jehovah's Salvation]. He shall be great,
and shall be called the Son of the Highest : and the
Lord God shall give unto him the chrone of his
father David : And he shall reign over the house of
Jacob for ever ; and of his kingdom there shall be
no end.' Then said Mary unto the angel, ' How
shall this be, seeing I know not a man ? ' And the
angel answered and said unto her, ' The Holy
Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the
Highest shall overshadow thee : therefore also that
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be
called the Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin,
Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old
age : and this is the sixth month with her, who was
called barren. For with God nothing shall be
impossible.' And Mary said, ' Behold the handmaid
of the Lord ; be it unto me according to thy word.'
And the angel departed from her.

And Mary arose in those days, and went into the
hill country with haste, into a city of Juda ; and
entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted
Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when

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Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe
leaped in her womb ; and Elisabeth was filled with
the Holy Ghost : and she spake out with a loud
voice, and said, ' Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence
is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should
come to me ? For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy
salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in
my womb for joy. And blessed is she that believed :
for there shall be a performance of those things
which were told her from the Lord.' And Mary
said

compare 'My soul doth magnify the Lord,

soniiah,S ^ my SP^ bath rejoiced in God
1 Sam 2: i-ii. my Saviour.

For he hath regarded the low estate of bis hand-
maiden :

For, behold, from henceforth all generations
shall call me blessed.

For he that is mighty hath done to me great
things ;

And holy is his name.

And his mercy is on them that fear him

From generation to generation.

He hath shewed strength with his arm :

He hath scattered the proud in the imagination
of their hearts.

He hath put down the mighty from their seats

And exalted them of low degree.

He hath filled the hungry with good things

And the rich he hath sent empty away.

He hath holpen his servant Israel

In remembrance of his mercy;

As he spake to our fathers,

To Abraham, and to his seed for ever.'
And Mary abode with her about three months,
and returned to her own house

BIRTH TO BAPTISM 7

Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should
be delivered ; and she brought forth a son. And her
neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had
shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced
with her. And it came to pass, that on the eighth
day they came to circumcise the child; and they
called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
And his mother answered and said, ■ Not so ; but he
shall be called John.' And they said unto her, ' There
is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.*
And they made signs to his father, how he would have
him called, and he asked for a writing table, and
wrote, saying, 'His name is John.' And they marvelled
all. And his mouth was opened immediately, and
his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.
And fear came on all that dwelt round about them :
and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout
all the hill country of Judaea. And all they that
heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying,
1 What manner of child shall this be ! ' And the
hand of the Lord was with him. And his father
Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and
prophesied, saying,

1 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel ;
For he hath visited and redeemed his people,
And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us
In the house of his servant David ;
As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,
Which have been since the world began :
That we should be saved from our enemies,
And from the hand of all that hate us ;
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
And to remember his holy covenant;
The oath wThich he sware to our father Abraham,
That he would grant unto us, that we being
delivered out of the hand of our enemies
might serve him without fear,

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In holiness and righteousness before him, all the

days of oar life.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of
the Highest :
isa. w:3. For tnou s^a^ g° before the face of
the Lord to prepare his ways ;
To give knowledge of salvation unto his people
By the remission of their sins,
Through the tender mercy of our God ;
Whereby the day-spring from on high hath

visited us,
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in
isa. 9: 2. the shadow of death,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.'
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit,
and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing
unto Israel.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on

Matthew , ,

1 :i8-?5. this wise.

Emmanuel. When as his mother Mary was espoused
to Joseph, before they came together, she
was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then
Joseph her husband, being a just man, and
not willing to make her a public example, was
minded to put her away privily. But while he
thought on these things, behold, the angel of the
Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying,
* Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto
thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in
her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth
a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS : for He
shalt save his people from their sins/

Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which
was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
1 Behold, a virgin shall be with child,

And shall bring forth a son,

And they shall call his name Emmanuel/

BIRTH TO BAPTISM 9

which being interpreted is, God with us. Then Joseph
being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord
had bidden him, and took unto him his wife. And
knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn
son: and he called his name JESUS [Jehovah's
Salvation].

And it came to pass in those days, that w

n i. j en Luke2:l-3a

there went out a decree from Caesar
Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And
this taxing was first made when Cyrenius wTas
governor of Syria. And all went to be taxed,
every one into his own city. And Joseph also went
up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into
Judaea, unto the city of David, which Mighty God
is called Bethlehem; (because he was I&a-9:6-
of the house and lineage of David :) to be taxed
with Mary his espoused wife, being great with
child. And so it was, that, while they were there,
the days were accomplished that she should be
delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son,
and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid
him in a manger ; because there was no room for
them in the inn.

And there were in the same country shepherds
abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock
by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord Prince
came upon them, and the glory of the of
Lord shone round about them : and they ^?°/: 6
were sore afraid. And the angel said unto
them, 'Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ Lthe Anointed j the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the
babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger/
And sud enly there was with the angel a multi-
tude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

10 THE MAN OF GALILEE

1 Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace,
Goodwill toward men/

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone
away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one
to another, * Let us now go even unto Bethlehem,
and see this thing which is come to pass, which the
Lord hath made known unto us.' And they came
with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen
it, they made known abroad the saying which was
told them concerning this child. And all they that
heard it wondered at those things which were
told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all
these things, and pondered them in her heart. And
the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God
for all the things that they had heard and seen, as
it was told unto them.

And when eight days were accomplished for the
circumcising of the child, his name was called
JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he
was conceived in the womb.

And when the forty days of her
purification according to the law of Moses
were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem,
to present him to the Lord ; (as it is written in the
law of the Lord, every male that openeth the womb
shall be called holy to the Lord ;) and to offer a sacrifice
according to that which is said in the law of the Lord,
A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. And,
behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name
was Simeon ; and the same man was just and devout,
waiting for the consolation of Israel : and the Holy
Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him
by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death,
before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came

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by the Spirit into the temple : and when the parents
brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the
custom of the law, then took he him up in his arms,
and blessed God, and said,

* Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in
peace,

According to thy word : for mine eyes have seen
thy salvation,

Which thou hast prepared before the x 4
face of all people :

A light to lighten the Gentiles,

And the glory of thy people Israel.'
And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things
which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed
them, and said unto Mary his mother, Isa g. u
4 Behold, this child is set for the fall and
rising again of many in Israel ; and for a sign
which shall be spoken against ; (yea, a sword shall
pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts
of many hearts may be revealed.' And there was
one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel,
of the tribe of Aser : she was of great age, and had
lived with an husband seven years from her virgin-
ity ; and she was a widow of about fourscore and
four years, which departed not from the temple,
but served God with fastings and prayers night and
day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks
likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all
them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

Now when Jesus was born in Beth-
lehem of Judeea in the days of Herod
the king, behold, there came wise men from the
east to Jerusalem, saying, 'Where is a star o it
he that is born King of the Jews ? for we of Jacob,
have seen his star in the East, and are
come to worship him.' When Herod the king
had heard these things, he was troubled, and all

Matt. 2 : 1-23.

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Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered
all the chief priests and scribes of the people to-
gether, he demanded of them where Christ should
be born. And they said unto him, ' In Bethlehem
of Judaea : for thus it is written by the prophet.
Micah5-2. And thou Bethlehem, in the land of
Juda,
Art not the least among the princes of Judah,
For out of thee shall come a Governor,
That shall rule my people Israel.'
Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise
men, enquired of them diligently what time the star
appeared. And he sent ih m to Bethlehem, and
said, ' Go and search dilL ently for the young child ;
and when ye have found him, bring me wTord
again, that I may come and worship him also.'

When they had heard the king, they departed ;
and, lo, the star, which they sawx in the East, went
before them, till it came and stood over where the
young child was. When tbey saw the star, they
rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they
were come into the house, they saw the young child
with Mary his mother, and fell down, and
worshipped him : and when they had opened their
treasures, they presented unto him gifts ; gold, and
frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God
in a dream that they should not return to Herod,
they departed into their own country another
way.

And when they were departed, behold, the angel
of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying,
1 Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and
flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee
word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy
him/ When he arose, he took the young child and
his mother by night, and departed into Egypt : and
was there until the death of Herod ; that it might be

BIRTH TO BAPTISM 18

fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the
prophet, saying,

Out of Egypt have I called my son.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of
the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth,
and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,
and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
under, according to the time which he had diligently
enquired of the wise men. Then was fulfilled that
which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,

1 In Bama was there a voice heard,

Lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning,

Bachel weeping for her children,

And would not be comforted, because they
are not.'
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of
the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
saying, * Arise and take the young child and his
mother, and go into the land of Israel : for they are
dead which sought the young child's life.' And he
arose, and took the young child and his mother, and
came into the land of Israel. But when he heard
that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of
his father Herod, he wTas afraid to go thither: not-
withstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he
turned aside into the parts of Galilee : and he came
and dwelt in a city called Nazareth : that it might
be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets,
He shall be called a Nazarene. And Luke2:ws2:
the child grew, and waxed strong in
spirit, filled with wisdom : and the grace of God
was upon him.

Now his parents went to Jerusalem Teach them

I a £ i. e xi. yourchil-

every year at the least of the passover. dren.
And when he was twelve years old, Deutll:19-
they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the
feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as

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they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in
Jerusalem ; and Joseph and his mother knew not of
it. But they, supposing him to have been in the
company, went a day's journey ; and they sought
him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And
when they found him not, they turned back again to
Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that
after three days they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing
them and asking them questions. And all that
heard him were astonished at his understanding and
answers. And when they saw him, they were
amazed: and his mother said unto him, ' Son, why
hast thou thus dealt with us ? behold, thy father
and I have sought thee sorrowing.' And he said
unto them, " How is it that ye sought me ? wist ye
not that I must be about my Father's business ? "
And they understood not the saying which he spake
unto them.

And he went down with them, and came to
Nazareth, and was subject unto them : and his
mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And
Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in
favour with God and man.

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CHAPTER II

Zbe first jfort^ 2>a\)s

We have not an high priest which cannot be touched
with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all
points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. —
Hebrews 4, 15.

BOW in the fifteenth year of the Luk3 3:M8,
reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius
Pilate being Governor of Judaea, and
Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his
brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region
of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene.
Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the
word of God carne unto John the son of Zacharias
in the wilderness.

And he came into all the country about a Man sent
Jordan, preaching ' Eepent ye : for the j™™^ °d*
kingdom of heaven is at hand.' As it is
written in the book of the words of Malt*3:2-
Esaias the prophet, saying,

The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

Prepare ye the way of the Lord,

Make his paths straight.

Every valley shall be filled,

And every mountain and hill shall be brought

low;
And the crooked shall be made straight,
And the rough ways shall be made smooth ;
And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Then said he to the multitude that came forth to

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be baptized of him, ' 0 generation of vipers, who
hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance,
and begin not to say within yourselves, We have
Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That
God is able of these stones to raise up children unto
Abraham. And now also the axe is laid unto the
root of the trees : every tree therefore which bringeth
not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire.' And the people asked him, saying, * What
shall we do then ? ' He answereth and saith unto
them, l He that hath two coats, let him impart to
him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let him
do likewise.' Then came also publicans to be
baptized, and said unto him, * Master, what shall
we do ? ' And he said unto them, * Exact no more
than that which is appointed you.' And the soldiers
likewise demanded of him, saying, ' And what
shall we do ? ' And he said unto them, i Do violence
to no man, neither accuse any falsely ; and be con-
tent with your wages/ And as the people were in
expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of
John, whether he were the Christ, or not; John
answered, saying unto them all, * I indeed baptize
you with water ; but one mightier than I cometh,
the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to un-
loose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost
and with fire : Whose fan is in his hand, and he
will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the
wheat into his garner ; but the chaff he will
burn with fire unquenchable/ And many other
things in his exhortation preached he unto the
people.

Matt. 3: 13-17. Then cometh Jesus ^m Galilee to

Jordan unto John, to be? baptized of him.

But John forbad him, saying, ' I have need to be

THE FIRST FORTY DAYS 19

baptized of thee, and comest thou to me ?' He humbled
And Jesus answering him said unto him {Jecom^ng
11 Suffer it to be so now : for thus it obedient,
becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. " PhlL3:8-
Then he suffered him. And Jesus, when <<And
he was baptized, went up straightway out praying."
of the water : and, lo, the heavens were ue '
opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove, and lighting upon him :
And lo a voice from heaven saying,

This is my beloved Son,

In whom I am well pleased.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit
into the wilderness to be tempted of the He is' able
devil. And when he had fasted forty themCrChatr
days and forty nights, he was after- ar« tempetd.
ward an hungred. And when the
tempter came to him, he said, ' Ifthou be the Son
of God, command that these stones be made bread/
But he answered and said, "it is
written, _ Deut.8:3.

Man shall not live by bread alone,

But by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God."
Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city,
and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
And saith unto him, ' If thou be the
Son of God, cast thyself down : for it is Psa-91: VL
written,

He shall give his angels charge concerning
thee:

And in their hands they shall bear thee up,

Lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a
stone. '
Jesus said unto him, " It is written
again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Deut,6: 13*

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thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an
exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the
kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ;
And saith unto him, ' All these things will I give
thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship

Deut. 6 : 13. me<> Then gaith jesug unto him> „ q ej.

thee hence, Satan : for it is written,

Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,
And him only shalt thou serve."
Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angela
came and ministered unto him.
John l • 15-51 J°nn bare witness of him, and cried,
John came saying, ' This was he of whom I spake,
So/mi1?1?688, He that cometh after me is preferred
before me : for he was before me. And
of his fulness have all we received, and grace for
grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath
seen God at any time; the only begotten Son,
which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him.'

And this is the record of John, when the Jews
sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,
1 Who art thou ? ' And he confessed, and denied
not ; but confessed, ' I am not the Christ.'
And they asked him, 'What then? Art thou
Elias ? ' And he saith, 1 1 am not.' Art thou that
prophet ? ' And he answered, ' No/ Then said
they unto him, ' Who art thou ? that we may give an
answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of
thyself ? ' He said, ' I am the voice of one
isa.40:3. crying in the wilderness, Make straight
the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.'
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said unto him, ■ Why
baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor
Elias, neither that prophet ? ' John answered

THE FIRST FORTY DAYS SI

them, saying, 1 1 baptize with water : but there
standeth one among you, whom ye know not ; he
it is, who coming after me is preferred before me,
whose shoe's latent t I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond
Jordan, where John was baptizing.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him,
and saith, ' Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I
said, After me cometh a man which is preferred
before me : for he was before me. And I knew
him not : but that he should be made manifest to
Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water/

And John bare record, saying, * I saw the Spirit
descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode
upon him. And I knew him not : but he that sent
me to baptize with water, the same said unto me,
Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending,
and remaining on him, the same is he which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and
bare record that this is the Son of God/

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CHAPTER III

Gbe jfirst flDinistr^: or, tbe
flDaster anfc flDan

The very hail's of your head are all numbered.

HGAIN the next day after John stood, John l: 33-01,
and two of his disciples; and look* 1 maul-
ing upon Jesus as he walked, ne|me.'thy
he saith, 'Behold the Lamb Johni7:6.
of God!' And the two disciples heard him speak,
and they followed Jesus. Then Jesus turned, and
saw them following, and saith unto them, " What
seek ye ? " They said unto him, c Rabbi (which is
to say, being interpreted, Master), where dwellest
thou?' He saith unto them, "Come and see."
They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode
with him that day : for it was about the tenth hour.
One of the two which heard John speak, and
followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith
unto him, ' We have found the Messias, which is,
being interpreted, the Christ.' And he brought him
to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said,
"Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be
called Cephas," which is, by interpretation, a stone.
The day following Jesus would go forth into
Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him,
"Follow me."

Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew

24 THE MAN OP GALILEE

and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith
unto him, * We have found him, of whom Moses, in
the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph/ And Nathanael said
unto him, i Can there any good thing come out of
Nazareth ? ' Philip saith unto him, * Come and
see/

Jesus saw Nathaneal, coming to him, and saith
of him, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is
no guile ! " Nathanael saith unto him, * Whence
knowest thou me ? ' Jesus answered and said unto
him, " Before that Philip called thee, when thou
wast under the fig tree, I saw thee/' Nathanael
answered and saith unto him, ' Eabbi, thou art tho
Son of God; thou art the King of Israel/ Jesus
answered and said unto him, " Because I said unto
thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou ?
thou shalt see greater things than these." And he
saith unto him, " Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels
of God ascending and descending upon the Son of
man/'

John 2 • ^n^ ^e *kird ^ay ^nere was a

°i-i2. * marriage in Cana of Galilee ; and the
We beheld mother of Jesus was there ; and both
His glory. Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the
marriage. And when they wanted wine,
the mother of Jesus saith unto him, ' They have no
wine/ Jesus saith unto her, " Woman, what have
I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come." His
mother saith unto the servants, i Whatsoever he
saith unto you, do it/ And there were set there six
waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying
of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith unto them, " Fill the waterpots with
water/' And they filled them up to the brim. An^

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he saith unto them, u Draw out now, and bear unto
the governor of the feast." And they bare it.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
that was made wine, and knew not whence it was :
(but the servants which drew the water knew ;) the
governor of the feast called the bridegroom, and
saith unto him, ' Every man at the beginning doth
set forth good wine; and when men have well
drunk, then that which is worse : but thou hast kept
the good wine until now.' This beginning of
miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
manifested forth his glory ; and his disciples believed
on him.

After this he went down to Capernaum he, and
his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples:
and they continued there not many days. And the
Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus
went up to Jerusalem, and found in John2:13«
the temple those that sold oxen and a house of
sheep and doves, and the changers of pr**eJj.r
money sitting : and when he had made
a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out
of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and
poured oufc the changers' money, and overthrew the
tables ; and said unto them that sold doves,
11 Take these things hence ; make not my Father's
house an house of merchandise." And his disciples
remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine
house hath eaten me up.

Then answered the Jews and said unto him,
1 What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou
doest these things ? ' Jesus answered and said
unto them, " Destroy this temple and in three days
I will raise it up." Then said the Jews, * Forty and
six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou
rear it up in three days ? ' But he spake of the temple
of his body. When therefore he was risen from the

26 THE MAN OF GALILEE

dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this
unto them ; and they believed the scripture, £nd
the words which Jesus had said.

x^ow when he was in Jerusalem at the passover,
in the feast day, many believed in his name, when
they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus
did not commit himself unto them, because he knew
ail men, and needed not that any should testify of
fBQan : for he knew what was in man. There was a
iohn 3: 1-22. man °f ^ne Pharisees, named Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews : The same came to
Not many Jesus by night, and said unto him,
called. ' Eabbi, we know that thou art a teacher

l Cor. i:26. come from God : for no man can do

these miracles that thou doest, except God be with
him. Jesus answered and said unto him, " Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God."
Nicodemus saith unto him, ' How can a man be
born when he is old ? can he enter the second
time into his mother's womb, and be born ? ' Jesus
answered, " Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he canuot
enter into the kingdom of God. That which is
born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto
thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth
where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit."
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, ' How can
these things be ? Jesus answered and said unto
him, "Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest
not these things ? Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
We speak that we do know, and testify that we
have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. If I

THE FIRST MINISTRY 27

have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,
how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly
things ? And no man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, even the Son
of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
bon of man be lifted up ; that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have eternal life."

For God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, Herein is
but have everlasting life. For God l0™* 4.10
sent not his Son in the world to condemn
the world ; but that the world through him might
be saved. He that believeth on him is not con-
demned : but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God. And this is the con-
demnation, that light is come into the world, and
men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil
hateth the light, neither comet h to the light, lest
his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth
truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

After these things came Jesus and His Layinrf a
disciples into the land of Judaea ; and there Foundation.
He tarried with them, and baptized. And Hebrews6 : i#
John also was baptizing in iEnon near to Salim,
because there was much water there : and they
came and were baptized. For John was not yet
cast into prison. Then there arose a question
between some of John's disciples and the Jews
about purifying. And they came unto John and
said unto him, 'Eabbi, he that was with thee
beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness,
behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to

28 THE MAN OF GALILEE

him.' John answered and said, ■ A man can receive
nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Ye your-
selves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the
Christ, but that I am sent before Him. He that hath
the bride is the bridegroom ; but the friend of the
bridegroom rejoiceth, which standeth and heareth
him, greatly because of the bridegroom's voice :
this my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase,
but I must decrease.'

He that cometh from above is above all : he that
is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth :
he that cometh from heaven is above all. And
what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth ;
and no man receiveth his testimony. He ihat hath
received his testimony hath set to his seal that God
is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the
the wTords of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by
measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and
hath given all things into his hand. He that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life : and he
that believeth not the son shall not see life ; but the
wrath of God abideth on him.

When therefore the Lord knew how the
witness in Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and
Samaria, baptized more disciples than John (though
Acts i : s. jesug Himself baptized not, but His dis-
ciples), He left Judaea, and departed again into
Galilee. And He must needs go through Samaria.
Then cometh He to a city of Samaria, which is
called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well
was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with His
journey, sat thus on the well : and it was about the
sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria
to draw water : Jesus saith unto her, " Give me to
drink." (For His disciples were gone away unto the
city to buy meat). Then saith the woman of

THE FIRST MINISTRY 29

Samaria unto Him, 'How is it that Thou, being a
Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of
Samaria ? For the Jews have no dealings with the
Samaritans/ Jesus answered and said unto her,
11 If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that
saith to thee, Give Me to drink, thou wouldest have
asked of Him, and He would have given thee living
wTater." The woman saith unto Him, ■ Sir, Thou
hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep :
from whence then hast Thou that living water?
Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, which gav6
us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his
children, and his cattle ? Jesus answered and
said unto her, " Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again : But whosoever drinketh of the
water that I shall give him shall be in him a well
of water springing up into everlasting life." The
woman saith unto Him, ' Sir, give me this water that
I thirst not, neither come hither to draw/ Jesus
saith unto her, " Go, call thy husband, and come
hither/' The woman answered and said, ' I have
no husband/ Jesus said unto her, " Thou hast
well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had
five husbands ; and he whom thou now hast is not
thy husband: in that saidst thou truly/' The
woman saith unto Him, ' Sir, I perceive that thou
art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this
mountain ; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the
place where men ought to worship/ Jesus saith
unto her, " Woman, believe me, the hour cometh,
when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye
know not what : we know what we worship : for
salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and
now is, when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth : for the Father
seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit :

30 THE MAN OF GALILEE

and they that worship Him must worship Him in
spirit and in truth. " The woman saith unto Him,
'I know that Messias coineth, which is called
Christ : when He is come, He will tell us all things.'
Jesus saith unto her, " I that speak unto thee am
He,"

And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled
that he talked with the woman : yet no man said,
What seeketh thou? or, Why talketh thou with
her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went
her way into the city, and saith to the men, * Come,
see a man, which told me all things that ever I did:
is not this the Christ ? ' Then they went out of the
city, and came unto him. In the meanwhile his
disciples prayed him, saying, ' Master, eat.' But he
said unto them, " I have meat to eat that ye know
not of." Therefore said the disciples one to
another, hath any man brought him ought to eat ?
Jesus saith unto them, " My meat is to do the will
of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say
not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh
harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields ; for they are white already
to harvest And he that reapeth receiveth wages,
and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he
that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice*
together. And herein is that saying true, One
soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap
that whereon ye bestowed no labour : other men
laboured, and ye are entered into their labours."
Joy in And many of the Samaritans of that

that city, city believed on him for the saying of the
woman, which testified, He told me all
that I ever did. So when the Samaritans were
come unto him, they besought him that he would
tarry with them : and he" abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word;

THE FIRST MINISTRY 31

and said unto the woman, 'Now we believe, not
because of thy saying: for we have heard him our-
selves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the
Saviour of the world.1 And Jesus returned
in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. e ' 14,
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no
honour is his own country. Then when he was
come into Galilee, the .Galileans received him,
having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem
at the feast : for they also went unto Luke i . 15#
the feast. And He taught in their
synagogues being glorified of all.

So Jesus came again into Cana of He went
Galilee, where he made the water wine, about doing
And there was a certain nobleman, whose §°°d}0: 55
son was sick at Capernaum. When he
heard that Jesus was come out of Judoaa into
Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that
he would come down, and heal his son : for he was
at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him,
''Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe."
The nobleman saith unto him, ■ Sir, come down ere
my child die.' Jesus saith unto him, "Go thy
way ; thy son liveth." And the man believed the
word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went
his way.

And as he was now going down, his servants met
him, and told him, saying, 'Thy son liveth/ Then
enquired he of them the hour when he began to
amend. And they said unto him, 'Yesterday at the
seventh hoar the fever left him/ so the father
knew that it was at the same hour in the
which Jesus said unto hrr>, Thy son liveth:
and himself believed, and his whole house.
This is again the second miracle that Jesus
did, when he was come out of Judaea into
Galilee.

32 THE MAN OF GALILEE

Luke3- 19-20 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved
' by him for Herodias his brother Philip's
wife, and for aU ibe evils which Herod had done,
added yet this above aii, that he shut up John in
prison.

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CHAPTER IV

Gbe Mountain flMnistr\>; or, £be
fIDaster witb fIDen

HND he came to Nazareth, where Luke 4.
he had been brought up : and, 16-32. *
as his custom was, he went into Behold my
the synagogue on the sabbath Servant,
day, and stood up for to read. And there
was delivered unto him the book of the prophet
Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he
found the place where it was written,
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
Because he hath anointed me to preach the

gospel to the poor ;
He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to

preach deliverance to the captives,
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised,
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the
minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them
that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
And he began to say unto them, " This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears." And all bare him
witness, and wondered at the gracious words which
proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, ' Is not
this Joseph's son ? ' And he said unto them, " Ye
will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician,
heal thyself : whatsoever we have heard done in
Capernaum, do also here in thy country." And he

35

36 THE MAN OF GALILEE

said, " Verily I say unto you, No prophet is
accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a
truth, many widows were in Israel in the days
of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three
years and six months, when great famine was
throughout all the land ; but unto none of them was
Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto
a woman that was a widow. And many lepers
were in Israel in the time of Elias the prophet ;
and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman
the Syrian. " And all they in the synagogue, when
they heard these things, were filled with wrath and
rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led nim
unto the brow of the hill whereon their city
was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
But he passing through the midst of them went his
way, and came down to Capernaum, a city of
Matt. 4: Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, he
13-16' came and dwelt in Capernaum, which
is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon
and Nephthalim : That it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

The land of Zabulon, and the land of

Nephthalim,
The way of the sea, beyond Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles ;
The people which sat in darkness
Saw great light ;
And to them which sat in the region and

shadow of death
Light is sprung up.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and
to say, " Repent : for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand."

Lukes: ^n^ ** came to pass, that, as the
1-11. * people pressed upon him to hear the

THE MOUNTAIN MINISTRY 87

word of God, he stood by the lake of l

Gennesaret, and saw two ships stand- a-flsnin*.

ing by the lake : but the fishermen were John 21:3%

gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

And he entered into one of the ships, which was

Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out

a little from the land. And he sat down and

taught the people out of the ship. Now when he

had left speaking, he said unto Simon, " Launch

out into the deep, and let down your nets for a

draught. " And Simon answering said unto him,

'Master, we have toiled all the night, and have

taken nothing : nevertheless at thy word I will let

down the net.' And when they had this done, they

inclosed a great multitude of fishes : and their net

brake. And they beckoned unto their partners,

which were in the other ship, that they should

come and help them. And they camu, and filled

both the ships, so that they began to sink. When

Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees,

saying, ■ Depart from me ; for I am a sinful

man, O Lord.' For he was astonished, and all

that were with him, at the draught of the

fishes which they had taken : And so was also

James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were

partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon,

11 Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men."

And when they had brought their ships to land,

they forsook all and followed him.

And he taught them on the sabbath Lnke4.

Jays. And they were astonished at his 31-44. *

doctrine : for his word was with power. „ .. . „
a n • 11 /i Healing all

And in the synagogue there was a man, that were

which had a spirit of an unclean devil, JlwdUrti.0'

and cried out with a loud voice, saying, Acts 10 : 38.

' Let us alone ; what have we to do with thee, thou

Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us?

38 THE MAN OF GALILEE

I know thee who thou art ; the Holy One of God.
And Jesus rebuked him, saying,* " Hold thy peace,
and come out of Him." And when the devil had
thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and
hurt him not. And they were all amazed, and
spake among themselves, saying, * What a word is
this I for with authority and power he commandeth
the unclean spirits, and they come out.' And the
fame of him went out into every place of the
country round about.

And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered
into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother
was taken with a great fever ; and they besought
him for her. And he stood over her, and rebuked
the fever; and it left her: and immediately she
arose and ministered unto them. Now when the
sun was setting, all they that had any sick
with divers diseases brought them unto him; and
he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed
them. And devils also came out of many, crying
out, and saying, ' Thou art Christ, the Son of God/
And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak :
for they knew that he was Christ.

And when it was day, he departed and went into
a desert place: and the people sought him, and
came unto him, and stayed him, that he should
not depart from them. And he said unto them,
I must preach the Kingdom of God to olher cities
also: for therefore am I sent. And he preached in
the synagogues of Galilee.

And it came to pass, when he was in

Li2-639.: a certain city, behold a man full of
leprosy : who, seeing Jesus, fell on his
face, and besought him, saying, ■ Lord, if thou
wilt, thou canst make me clean.' And he
put forth his hand, and touched him,
saying, " I will : be thou clean." And immedi-

THE MOUNTAIN MINISTRY 39

ately the leprosy departed from him. And
he charged him to tell no man : hut " go, and shew
thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing,
according as Moses commanded, for a testimony
unto them." But so much the more went there a
fame abroad cf him : and great multitudes came
together to hear, and fo be healed by him of their
infirmities. And he withdrew himself into the
wilderness, and prayed.

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he
was teaching, that there wTere Pharisees and
doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out
of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem :
and the power of the Lord was present to heal
them. And, behold men brought in a bed a man
which was taken with a palsy : and they sought
means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
And when they could not find by what way they
might bring him in because of the multitude, they
went upon the housetop, and let him down through
the tiling with his couch into the midst before
Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said unto
him, li Man, thy sins are forgiven thee." And the
scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying,
* Who is this which speaketh blasphemies ? Who
can forgive sins but God alone ? ' But when Jesus
perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto
them, " What reason ye in your hearts ? Whether
is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee ; or to
say, Eise up and walk? But that ye may know
that the Son of Man hath power upon earth to for-
give sins" (He said unto the sick of the palsy),
" I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch,
and go into thine house.,, And immediately he
rose up before them, and took up that whereon he
lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying
God. And they were all amazed, and they glorified

40 THE MAN OF GALILEE

God, and were filled with fear, saying we have seen
strange things to-day. And after these things, he
went forth, and saw a publican, named LeYi, sit-
ting at the receipt of custom: and he said

unto him, " Follow Me." And he left
JLmsn called all r0se up, and followed him. And
Matthcw9:9. Levi made him a great feast in his own

house : and there was a great company
of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against
His disciples, saying, ' Why do ye eat and drink
with publicans and sinners ? ' And Jesus answer-
ing said unto them, " They that are whole need
not a physician ; but they that are sick. I came
not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
And they said unto him, * Why do the disciples of
John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the
disciples of the Pharisees ; but thine eat and
drink ? ' And he said unto them, " Can ye make
the children of the bridechamber fast, while the
bridegroom is with them ? But the days will come,
when the bridegroom shall be taken away from
them, and then shall they fast in those days."

And he spake also a parable unto
Nigh unto them, " No man putteth a piece of new
li^fy!111^ garment upon an old : if otherwise,
neb. 8 : is. then both the new maketh a rent, and

the piece that was taken out of the new
agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth
new wine into old bottles ; else the new wine will
burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles
shall perish. But new wine must be put into new
bottles; and both are preserved. No man also
having drunk old wine straightway desireth new :
John 5 *or ^e sa^n> " ^he °ld is better." After

this there was a feast of the Jews ; and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at

THE MOUNTAIN MINISTRY 11

Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool,
which is called in the Hebrew tongue Consult
Bethesda, having five porches. In version.
these lay a great multitude of impotent
folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the move-
ment of the water. And a certain man was there,
which had an infirmity thirtv and eight years.
When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had
been now a long time in that case, he saith unto
him, u Wilt thou be made whole ? " The impotent
man answered him, ' Sir, I have no man, when the
wTater is troubled, to put me into the pool : but
while I am coming, another steppeth down before
me.' Jesus saith unto him, " Eise, take up thy
bed, and walk." And immediately the man was
made whole, and took up his bed, and walked : and
on the same day was the sabbath. The Jews
therefore said unto him that was cured, * It is the
sabbath day : it is not lawful for thee to carry thy
bed.' He answered them, ' He that made me
whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed and
walk.' Then asked they him, 'What man is that
which said unto thee, Take up thy bed and walk ? '
.And he that was healed wist not who it was : for
Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being
in that place. Afterwards Jesus findeth him in
the temple, and said unto him, " Behold, thou
art made whole : sin no more, lest a worse thing
come unto thee." The man departed, and told
the Jews that it was Jesus, which had * made
him whole. And therefore did the Jews perse-
cute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he
had done these things on the sabbath day.
But Jesus answered them, " My Father worketh
hitherto, and I work." Therefore the Jews sought
the more to kill him, because he not only had broken
the sabbath, but said also that God was his father

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making himself equal with God. Then answered
Jesus and said unto them, " Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but
what he seeth the Father do : for what things
soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him
all things that himself doeth : and he will shew him
greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For
as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth
them ; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
For the Father judgeth no ^man, but hath com-
mitted all judgment unto the Son : That all men
should honour the Son, even as they honour the
Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth
not the Father which hath sent him. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word,
and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlast-
ing life, and shall not come into condemnation ; but
is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is,
when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son o
God : and they that hear shall live. For as the
Father hath life in himself; so bath he given
to the Son to have life in himself ; and hath given
him authority to execute judgment also, because he
is the Son of man. Marvel not at this : for the
hour is coming, in the which all that are in the
graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ;
they that have done good, unto the resurrection of
life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resur-
rection of damnation. I can of mine own self do
nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is
just : because I seek not mine own will, but the will
of the Father which hath sent me. If I bear
witness of myself, my witness is not true." There
is another that beareth witness of me ; and I
know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is

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true. Te sent unto John, and he bear witness unto
the truth. But I receive not testimony from man :
but these things I say, that ye might be saved. He
was a burning and a shining light : and ye were
willing for a season to rejoice in his light. But I
have greater witness than that of John : for the
works which the Father hath given me to finish,
the same works that I do, bear witness to me that
the Father hath sent me. And the Father himself,
which hath sent me, hath borne witness to me. Ye
have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen
his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in
you : for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

" Search the scriptures : for in them ye think
ye have eternal life : and they are they which
testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye
might have life. I receive not honour from men.
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God
in you. I am come in my Father's name, and ye
receive me not : if another shall come in his own
name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe,
which receive honour of one another, and seek not
the honour that cometh from God only ? Do not
think that I will accuse you to the Father : there
is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye
trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have
believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe
not his writings, how shall ye believe my words ? M

And it came to pass on the second Luke6:i-i9.
sabbath after the first, that he went The Sabbath
through the corn fields ; and his ™**e for
disciples plucked the ears of corn, and Mark 2 .- 27.
did eat, rubbing them in their hands. And certain
of the Pharisees said unto them, ' Why do ye that
which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days ? '
And Jesus answering them said, " Have ye not
read so much as this, what David did, when him-

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self was an hungred, and they which were with
him ; how he went into the house of God, and did
take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them
that were with him ; which it is not lawful to eat
but for the priests alone ? " And he said unto them,
" That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath."

And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that
he entered into the synagogue and taught : and
there was a man whose right hand was withered.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him,
whether he would heal on the sabbath day ; that
they might find an accusation against him. But
he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which
had the withered hand, " Eise up, and stand forth
in the midst." And he arose and stood forth. Then
said Jesus unto them, " I will ask you one thing;
Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to
do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?" And look-
ing round about upon them all, he said unto the
man, " Stretch forth thy hand." And he did so:
and his hand was restored whole as the other.
And they were filled with madness ; and communed
one with another what they might do to Jesus.
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out
into a mountain to pray, and continued all night
in prayer to God.

And when it was day, he called unto him his
disciples : and of them He chose twelve, whom
Twelve a^so ne Damed apostles ; Simon (whom

foundations, he also named Peter), and Andrew his
brother, James and John, Philip and
Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the
son of Alphseus, and Simon called Zelotes, and
Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot,
which also was the traitor.

And be came down with them, and stood in the

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plain, and the company of his disciples, and a
great multitude of people out of all Judaea and
Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and
Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of
their diseases ; and they that were vexed with un-
clean spirits : and they were healed. And the
whole multitude sought to touch him : for there
went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

And seeing the multitude?, he went
up into a mountain ; and when he
was set, his disciples came unto him ; And he
opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
" Blessed are the poor in spirit :

For their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn :
For they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek :

For they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness :
For they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful :

For they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart :

For they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers :

For they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for
righteousness' sake :
For their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you,
and pers£cute you, and shall say all manner
of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad : for great is
jour reward in heaven : for so persecuted
they the prophets which were before you.
" Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt

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have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted ?
it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast
out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are
the light of the world. A city that is set on an
hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a
candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candle-
stick ; and it giveth light unto all that are in the
house. Let your light so shine before men, that
they may see your good works, and glorify your
Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am
come to destroy the law, or the prophets : I am
not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say
unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or
one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all
be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one
of these least commandments, and shall teach men
so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven : but whosoever shall do and teach them,
the same shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven. For I say unto you, That except your
righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into
the kingdom of heaven.

" Ye have heard that it wa$ said by them of old
time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall
kill shall be in danger of the judgn:enb ; But I say
unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment :
and whosoever shall say to his brother, Eaca, shall
be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall
say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and
there rememberest that thy brother hath ought
against thee; Leave there thy gift before the
altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy
cother, and then come and offer thy gift. Agree
with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the

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way with him ; lest at any time the adversary
deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee
to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily
I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out
thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

44 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old
time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I
say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman
to lust after her hath committed adultery with her
already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend
thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is
profitable for thee that one of thy members should
perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast
into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it
off, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee
that one of thy members should perish, and not
that thy whole body should be cast into hell. It hath
been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let
him give her a writing of divorcement. But I say
unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife,
saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to
commit adultery ; and whosoever shall marry her
that is divorced committeth adultery

" Again, ye have heard that it hath been said
by them of old time. Thou shalt not forswear
thyself, But shall perform unto the Lord
thine oaths: But I say unto you, swear not at
all ; neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : Nor
by the earth ; for it his footstool : neither by Jeru-
salem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither
shalt thou swear by thine head, because thou canst
not make one hair white or black. But let your
communication be, Yea, yea ; nay, nay: for what-
soever is more than these cometh of evil.

" Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : but I say
unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever

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shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him
the other also. And if any man will sue thee at
the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy
cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go
a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh
thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn
not thou away.

" Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine
enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that
hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use
you, and persecute you ; That ye may be ;the
children of your Father which is in heaven : for
he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what
reward have ye ? do not even publicans the same ?
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye
more than others ? do not even the publicans so ?
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which
is in heaven is perfect.

11 Take heed that ye do not your righteousness
before men, to be seen of them : otherwise ye have
no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do nob
sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do
in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may
have the glory of men. Verily I say unto you,
They have their reward. But when thou doest
alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right
hand doeth : That thine alms may be in secret :
and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall
reward thee openly.

" And when thou pray est, thou shalt not be as
the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing
in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets,

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that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto
you, They have their reward. But thou, when
thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
secret; and thy Father which seest in secret shall
reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not
vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think
that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask
him. After this manner therefore pray ye :

Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done,
In earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day
Our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom,
And the power, and the glory,

For ever. Amen.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you : But if ye
forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your
Father forgive your trespasses.

" Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites,
of a sad countenance : for they disfigure their
faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head,
and \uish thy face ; That thou appear not unto
men t<? fast, but unto thy Father which is in

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secret : and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall
reward thee openly.

" Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal : But lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth
nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not
break through nor steal : For where your treasure
is, there will your heart be also. The light of the
body is the eye : if therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine
eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness,
how great is that darkness !

" No man can serve two masters : for either he
will hate the one, and love the other ; or else he
will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye
cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say
unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more
than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold
the fowls of the air : for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. i\re ye not much better than
they ? Which of you by taking thought can add
one cubit unto his stature? xAnd why take ye
thought for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they
spin : And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,
which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the
oven, shall he not much more clothe you, 0 ye of
little faith ? Therefore take no thought, saying,
What shall we eat ? or, What shall we drink ? or
Wherewithal shall we be clothed ? (For after all

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these things do the Gentiles seek :) for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness ; and all these thin ;s
shall be added unto you. Take therefore no
thought for the morrow : for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof.

11 Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matfc
For with what judgment ye judge, ye
shall be judged : and with what measure yc mete,
it shall be measured to you again. And why
beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's
eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine
own eye ? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let
me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold,
a beam is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then
shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye.

11 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,
neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet, and turn again and
rend you. Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek,
and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you : For every one that asketh receiveth ;
and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is
there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he
give him a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will he give
him a serpent ? If ye then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children, how much
more shall your Father which is in heaven give
good things to them that ask him ? Therefore all
things whatsover ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them : for this is the law and
the prophets.

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" Enter ye in at the strait gate for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat :
because strait is the gate, and narrow is the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that
find it.

" Beware of false prophets, which come to you in
sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do
men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good
tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and
cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye
shall know them. Not every one that saith unto
me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and
in thy name done many wonderful works ? And
then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

" Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a
wise man, which built his house upon a rock.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and
the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it
fell not : for it was founded upon a rock. And
every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and
doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man,
wmich built his house upon the sand : And the rain
descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house ; and it fell : and great
was the fall of it.'

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And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended
these sayings, the people were astonished at his
doctrine : For he taught them as one having
authority, and not as the scribes. Now
when he had ended all his sayings in Luke ? : l-io.
the audience of the people, he entered into
Capernaum.

And a certain centurion's servant, who was
dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. And
when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto Cpum|,s from
him the elders of the Jews, beseeching the table,
him that he would come and heal his
servant. And when they came to Jesus, the)
besought him instantly, saying, ■ That he was
worthy for whom he should do this : For he
loveth our nation, and he hath built us a
synagogue/ Then Jesus went with them. And
when he was now not far from the house, the
centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him,
1 Lord, trouble not thyself : for I am not worthy
that thou shouldest enter under my roof : Where-
fore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto
thee : but say in a word, and my servant shall bo
healed. For I also am a man set under authority,
having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go,
and he goeth ; and to another, Come, and he
cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth
it/ When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled
at him, and turned him about, and said unto the
people that followed him, "I say unto you, I have
not found so great faith, no, not in Israel." And
they that were sent, returning to the house, found
the servant whole that had been sick.

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M* Sermon

V.

GE5ENES

64

CHAPTER V

Zbc (Brccn (Blens of (Salilee; or,
Gbe master ant) flDultituoes

Shall the dead arise, and praise thee P

Psalm 88 : 10.

HND it cam© to pass the day
after, that he went into a city %?fcB
called Main; and many of his
disciples went with him, and JftfttSth
much people. Now when he came nigh 1 Kings
to the gate of the city, beheld, there was
a dead man carried out, the only son of his
mother, and she was a widow : and much people
of the city was with her. And when the Lord
saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto
her, " Weep not." And he came and touched the
bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he
said, " Young man, I say unto thee, Arise." And
he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And
he delivered him to his mother. And there came
a fear on all : and they glorified God, saying, ' That
a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That
God hath visited Lis people.' And this rumour of
him went forth throughout all Judsea, and
throughout all the region round about.

And the disciples of John showed him of all these
things. And John calling unto him two of his
disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Io
1 Art thou he that should come? or look am left,
we for another?' When the men were ^J1*'
come unto him, they said, ' John Baptist

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hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that
should come? or look we for another?' And in
that same hour he cured many of their infirmities
and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many
that were blind he gave sight. Then Jesus answer-
ing said unto them,

" Go your way,

And tell John what things ye have seen and
heard,

How that the blind see,

The lame walk,

The lepers are cleansed,

The deaf hear,

The dead are raised,

To the poor the gospel is preached.

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be
offended in me."

And when the messengers of John,
Elijah the were departed, he began to speak unto
^iaiSchi' tne Pe°ple concerning John, " What went
*• 5. ye out into the wilderness for to see ? A

reed shaken with the wind? But what
went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft
raiment ? Behold, they which are gorgeously
apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet?
Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a
prophet." " This is he, of whom it is written,

Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,

Which shall prepare thy way before thee.
For I say unto you, Among those that are born of
women there is not a greater prophet than John
the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom
of God is greater than he."

Whom And all the people that heard him, and

teach6 the publicans, justified God, being bap-
know- tized with the baptism of John. But
itaiah28:9 the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the

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counsel of God against themselves, being
not baptized of him. And the Lord Baid,
" Whereunto then shall I liken the men
of this generation? and to what are they like 1
They are like unto children sitting in the market-
place, and calling one to another, and saying, We
have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we
have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. For
John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor
drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The
Son of man ig come eating and drinking ; and ye
say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a
friend of publicans and sinners ! But wisdom is
justified of all her children." Then began
he to upbraid the cities wherein most ^20-30.
of hia mighty works were done, because The
they repented not : "Woe unto thee, Cho- StSeY^h
razin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if believed
the mighty works, which were done in Jonahs:
you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would have repented long ago in sackcloth
and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judg-
ment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which
art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down
to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been
done in thee, had been done im Sodom, it would
have remained until this day. But I say unto
you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee."

At that time Jesus answered and said,
" I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven His com.
and earth, because thou hast hid these mand-
things from the wise and prudent, and are not
hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, f*}*™11*'
Father : for so it seemed good in thy sight. 5 .-3,
All things are delivered unto me of my
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Father; neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will
reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest
unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light-"

And one of the Pharisees desired him
e * that he would eat with him. And he went
into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a
sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the
Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box, of
ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weep-
ing, and began to wash his feet with tears, and
did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and
kissed his feet, and anointed them with the oint-
ment. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden
him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, ' This
man, if he were a prophet, would have known who
and what manner of woman this is that toucheth
him: for she is a sinner.' And Jesus answering
said unto him, " Simon, I have somewhat to say
unto thee." And he saith, ' Master, say on.'
" There was a certain creditor which had two
debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the
other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay,
he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore,
which of them will love him most?" Simon
answered and said, ' I suppose that he, to whom
he forgave most.' And he said unto him, " Thou
hast rightly judged." And he turned to the
woman, and said unto Simon, " Seest thou this
woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest
me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my
feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of

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her head. Thou gavesfc me no kiss: but. this
woman since the time I came in hath not ceased
to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not
anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet
with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, Her
sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved
much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same
loveth little." And he said unto her, " Thy sins
are forgiven/' And they that sat at meat with
him began to say within themselves, ' Who is this
that forgiveth sins alsoT And he said to the
woman, " Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace."

And it came to pass afterward, that he Luke 8:
went througnout every city and village, 1"3,
preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the king-
dom of God and the twelve were with him, and cer-
tain women, which had been healed of evil spirits
and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of
whom went seven devils, and Jcanna the wife of
Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many
others, which ministered unto him of their sub-
stance-

And he was casting out a devil, and it
was dumb. And it came to pass, when LlJj[e3ll!
the devil was gone out, the dumb spake ;
and the people wondered. But some of ™gj?$*
them said, He casteth out devils through God.
Beelzebub, the chief of the devils. And sTi^
others, tempting him, sought of him a
sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts,
said unto them, " Every kingdom divided against
itself is brought to desolation; and a house
divided against a house falleth. If Satan also be
divided against himself, how shall his kingdom
stand ? because ye say that I cast out devils through
Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils,
by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore

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shall they be your judges. But if I with the
finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the king-
dom of God is come upon you. When a strong
man armed keepth his palace, his goods are in
peace: but when a stronger than he shall come
upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him
all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his
spoils. He that is not with me is against me: and
he that gathereth not with me scattereth. When
the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh
through dry places, seeking rest; and finding
none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence
I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it
swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh
to him seven other spirits more wicked than him-
self; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the
last state of that man is worse than the first."

And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a
certain woman of the company lifted up her voice,
and said unto him, ' Blessed is the womb that bare
thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.' But
he said, " Yea rather, blessed are they that hear
the word of God, and keep it."

And when the people were gathered
John did no thick togetherj he began to say, " This is
John 10: 4i. an evil generation: they seek a sign;
and there shall no sign be given it, but
the sign of Jonas the prophet* For as Jonas was
a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of
man be to this generation. The queen of the
south shall rise up in the judgment with the men
of this generation, and condemn them, for she came
from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon ; and, beheld, a greater than
Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh shall rise
up in the judgment with this generation, and shall
condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of

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Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
" No man, when he hath lighted a candle,
putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel,
but on a candlestick, that they which come in may
see the light. The light of the body is the eye :
therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light ; but when thine eye is evil, thy
body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore
that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having
no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as
when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee
light."

While he yet talked to the people,
behold, his mother and his brethren ^l4™22
stood without, desiring to speak with
him. Then one said unto him, ' Behold, Shamed to
thy mother and thy brethren stand with- call them
out, desiring to speak with thee.' But nXrem^'-.u
he answered and said unto him that told
him, " Who is my mother ? and who are my
brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand
toward his disciples, and said, " Behold my mother
and my brethren ! For whosoever shall do the will
of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my
brother, and sister, and mother."

And as he spake, a certain Pharisee
besought him to dine with him : and he^g-ll.7*
went in, and sat down to meat. And
when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelledwashed his
that he had not first washed before^^.^
dinner. And the Lord said unto him,
" Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of
the cup and the platter; but your inward part
is full of ravening and wickedness. Ye fools, did
not he that made that which is without make that
which is within also? But rather give alms of

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such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are
clean unto you. But woe unto you, Pharisees ! for
ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs,
and pass over judgment and the love of God:
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
other undone. Woe unto you, Pharisees ! for ye
love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and
greetings in the markets- Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves
which appear not, and the men that walk over
them are not aware of them."

Then answered one of the lawyers,
caused6 and said unto him, ' Master, thus saying
many to thou reproachest us also.' And he said,
Mai 2\% " Woe unto you also, ye lawyers ! for ye
lade men with burdens grievous to be
borne, and ye yourselves touch not the
burdens with one of your fingers, Woe unto you !
for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness
that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they
indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send
them prophets and apostles, and some of them
they shall slay and persecute: that the blood of
all the prophets, which was shed from the founda-
tion of the world, may be required of this genera-
tion ; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of
Zaeh arias, which perished between the altar* and
the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be re>-
quired of this generation. Woe unto you, lawyers!
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye
entered not in yourselves, and them that were
entering in ye hindered." And as he said these
things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees
began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him
to speak of many things: l&ying wait for him, and
seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that

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they might accuse him. In the mean- Luke 12#
time, when there were gathered together
an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch
that they trode one upon another, he began to say
unto his disciples first of all,

" Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which
is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered, that
shall not be revealed ; neither hid, that shall not
be known. Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken
in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that
which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be
proclaimed upon the housetops. And I say unto
you my friends, Be net afraid of them that kill
the body, and after that have no more that they
can do. But I w^ill forewarn you whom ye shall
fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath
power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto you, Fear
him. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings,
and not one of them is forgotten before God ? But
even the very hairs of your head are ail num-
bered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value
than many sparrows- Also I say unto you, Who-
soever shall confess me before men, him shall the
Son of man also confess before the angels of God :
but he that denieth me before men shall be denied
before the angels of God. And whoso-
ever shall speak a word against the Son them that
of man, it shall be forgiven him: but call evil
unto him that blasphemeth against the good'evii.
Holy Ghost it shall not be f orgiven. ha 5 : *°-
And when they bring you unto the
synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take
ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer,
or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall
teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

And one of the company said unto him, ' Master,
speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance
with me/ And he said unto him, " Man, who

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made me a judge or a divider over you ?" And he
said unto them, " Take heed, and beware of
COYetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in
the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

And he spake a parable unto them, say-
Woe unto lng> " The ground of a certain rich man
*oin%ouseto brought forth plentifully : and he
house. ' thought within himself, saying, What
i*a. 5 : 8. Bhall I do, because I have no room where

to bestow my fruits? And he said, This
will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build
greater ; and there will I bestow all my fruits and
my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou
hast much goods laid up for many years; take
thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God
said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall
be required of thee: then whose shall those things
be, which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth
up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward
God."

And he said unto his disciples, " Therefore I say
unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye
shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put
on. The life is more than meat, and the body is

more than raiment- Consider the
Cast all raYens : for they neither sow nor reap ;
upon htm. which neither have storehouse nor barn ;
l Peter 5:7. and God feedeth them: how much more

are ye better than the fowls ? And
which of you with taking thought can add to his
stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do
that thing which is least, why take ye thought for
the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow:
they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto
you, that Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe
the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-
morrow is cast into the oven ; how much more will

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he clothe you, O ye of little faith ? And seek not
ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither
be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do
the nations of the world seek after : and your
Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

" But rather seek ye the kingdom of God ;
and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear
not, little flock ; for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye
have, and give alms ; provide yourselves bags which
wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth
not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth
corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also-. Let your loins be girded about,
and your lights burning; and ye your-
selves like unto men that wait for their if therefore
lord, when he wTill return from the thou shf !J
wedding; that when he cometh and Rev. 3:3
knocketh, they may open unto him
immediately. Blessed are those servants, whom
the lord when he cometh shall find watching:
verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself,
and make them to sit down to meat, and will come
forth and serve them. And if he shall come in
the second watch, or come in the third watch, and
find them so, blessed are those servants. And this
know, that if the goodman of the house had known
what hour the thief would come, he would have
watched, and not have suffered his house to be
broken through. Be ye therefore ready also : for
the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think
not"

Then Peter said unto him, ' Lord,
speakest thou this parable unto us, or I have a
even to all V And the Lord said, " Who ^ard"
then is that faithful and wise steward, entrusted
whom his lord shall make ruler over his i car. 9 17
household, to give them their portion of

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meat in due season? Blessed is that servant,
whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him
ruler over all that he hath. But and if that ser-
vant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his com-
ing ; and shall begin to beat the menservants and
maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken ;
the lord of that servant will come in a day when
he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is
not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will
appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And
that servant, which knew his lord's will, and pre-
pared not himself, neither did according to his
will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he
that knew not, and did commit things! worthy oi
stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto
whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much
required : and to whom men have committed much,
of him they will ask the more-"

" I am come to send fire on the
waves7 heart ; and what will I, if it be already
are gone kindled ? But I have a baptism to be
Psaini4V:7 baptized with; and how am I straitened
till it be accomplished ! Suppose ye that
I am come to give peace on earth ? I tell
you, Nay; but rather division: for from hence-
forth there shall be five in one house divided, three
against two, and two against three. The fathers
shall be divided against the son, and the son
against the father ; the mother against the
daughter, and the daughter against the mother:
the mother in law against her daughter in law,
and the daughter in law against her mother in
law/1 And he said also to the people;, " When ye
eee a cloud rise out of thei west, straightway y^
say, There cometh a shower; and so it ie. And
when ye see the; south wind dIott, ye say; There

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will be heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypo-
crites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the
earth ; but how is it that ye do not discern this
time? Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye
not what is right? When thou goest with thine
adversary to the magistrate, as thou art
in the Way give diligence that thou Call ye
mayest be delivered from him ; lest he while he\s
hale the^ to the judge, and the judge £ea^55s6.
deliver thee to the officer, and the officer
cast thee into prison. I tell thee, thou
shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the
very last mite."

SEVEN PARABLES. Matt. is.

The same day went Jesus out of the
house, and sat by the sea side. And great multi-
tudes were gathered together unto him, so that ho
went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude
stood on the shore. And he spake many things
unto them in parables, saying,

" Behold, a sower went forth to sow ; and
when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and
the fowls came and devoured them up : some fell
upon stony places, where they had not much earth :
and forthwith they sprung up, because they had
no deepness of earth : and when the sun was up,
they were scorched ; and because they had no root,
they withered away. And some fell among thorns ;
and the thorns sprung up, and choked them : but
other fell into good ground, and brought forth
fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixty fold, some
thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
And the disciples* came, and said unto
him, ' Why speakest thou unto them in Thou art
parables?' He answered and said unto 2Sam. 12': 7.
them, " Because it is given unto you to
knofw the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but

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to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to
him shall be given, and he shall have more abund-
ance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be
taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I
to them in parables: because they seeing see not;
and hearing they hear not, neither do they under-
stand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Esaias, which saith,

"By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not under-
stand ;
Andseeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive
For this people's heart is waxed gross,
And their ears are dull of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed:
Lest at any time they should see with their

eyes,
And hear with theifr ears,
And should understand with their heart,
And should be converted,
And I should heal them.

" But blessed are your eyes, for they
see : and your ears, for they hear. For
verily I say unto you, That many prophets
and righteous men have desired to< see
those things which ye see, and have not seen them ;
and to hear those things which ye hear, and have
not heard them.

" Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom,
and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked
one, and catcheth away that \* hich was sown in his
heart. This is he which received seed by the way
side. But he that received the seed into stony
places, the same is he that heareth the word, and
anon with joy receiveth it; yet hath he not root in
himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribula-
tion or persecution ariseth because of the word, by

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and by he is offended. He also that received seed
among the thorns is he that heareth the word ; and
the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of
riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruit-
ful. But he that received seed into the good
ground is he that heareth the word, and under-
standeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth
forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some
thirty."

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
" The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man
which sowed good seed in his field : but while men
slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the
wheat, and went his way. But when the blade
was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then
appeared the tares also. So the servants of the
householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst
not thou sow good seed in thy field ? from whence
then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy
hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt
thou then that we go and gather them up ? But
he said, Nay ; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye
root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow
together until the harvest: and in the time of
harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together
first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them : but gather the wheat into my barn."

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,
" The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of
mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in
his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds : but
when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs,
and becometh a tree, so< that the birds of the air
come and lodge in the branches thereof."

Another parable spake he unto them, " The
kingdom of heaven is like unto leaYen, which a
woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened. " All these things

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spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and
without a parable spake he not unto them : that
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, saying,

1 I will open my mouth in parables ;
I will utter things which ha,ve been kept
secret from the foundation of the world '

Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went
into the house: and his disciples came unto him,
saying, * Declare unto us the parable of the tares
of the field/ He answered and said unto them,
" He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man *
the field is the world ; the good seed are the chil-
dren of the kingdom; but the tares are the
children of the wicked one ; the enemy that sowed
them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the
world ; and the reapers are the angels. As there-
fore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire ;
so shall it be in the end of this world- The Son of
man shall send forth his angels>, and they shall
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend,
and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them
into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear/'

" Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto
treasure hid in a field ; the which when a man
hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth
and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field."

" Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a
merchant man, seeking goodly pearls, who, when
he had found one pearl of great price, went and
sold all that he had, and bought it/'

" Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a
net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of
every kind : which, when it was full, they drew to
shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into

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vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at
the end of the world: the angels shall come forth,
and sever the wicked from among the just. And
shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall
be wailing and gnashing of teeth." Jesus saith
unto them, " Have ye understood all these things V
They say unto him, ; Yea, Lord/ Then said he
unto them, " Therefore every scribe which is in-
structed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto
a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth
out of his treasure things new and old." And it
came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these
parables, he departed thence. Now when Jesus
saw great multitudes about him, he gave
commandment to depart unto the other ^^J5
side. And a certain scribe came, and
said unto him, ' Master, I will follow arosaand
thee whithersoever thou p-oest.' And wenj:

1 KlTlOS

Jesus saith unto him, " The foxes have 1921.
holes, and the birds of the air have
nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay
his head." And he said unto another, Luke 9:
"Follow me." But he said, ' Lord, suffer 59"62'
mo first to go and bury my father. 'Jesus said unto
iiim, " Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou
and preach the kingdom of God-" And another
also said, ' Lord, I will follow thee ; but let me
first go bid them farewell, which are at home at
my house/ And Jesus said unto him, " No man,
having put his hand to the plough, and looking
back is fit for the kingdom of God."

And when he was entered into a ship, Matt. 8:
his disciples followed him. And, behold, 23-27.
there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch
Mi at the ship was covered with the waves: but he
was asleep. And his disciples came to him. and
invoke him, saying. 'Lord, save us: we perish.'
And hs sr.itb unto them, "Why are ye fearful, 0

72 THE MAN OF GALILEE

ye of little faith?" Then he arose, and rebuked
the wind and the sea; and there was a great calm.
But the men marvelled, saying, ' What manner oi
man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey
him !'

And they arrived at the country of
Luke 8: the Gadarenes, which is over against
2656 Galilee, And when he went forth to
He hath but land, there met him out of the city, a
time?rt certain man, which had devils long time,
Bev. 12:12 and ware no clothes, neither abode in
any house, but in the tombs. When he
saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him,
and with a loud voice said, ' What have I to do
with thee, Jesusi, thou Son of God most high? I
beseech thee, torment me not/ (For he had com-
manded the unclean spirit to come out of the man.
For off tentimes it had caught him : and he was kept
bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake
the bands, and was driven of the devil into the
wilderness.) And Jesus asked him, saying, " What
is thy name?" And he said, 'Legion:' because
many devils were entered into him. And they
besought him that he would not command them to
go out into- the deep. And there was there an
herd of many swine feeding on the mountain : and
they besought him that he would suffer them to
enter into them. And he suffered them. Then
went the devils out of the man, and entered into
the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep
place into the lake, and were choked. When they
that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and
went and told it in the city and in the country-
Then they went out to see what was done; and
came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom
the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of
Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind : and they

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were afraid. They also which saw it told them by
what means he that was possessed of the devils was
healed.

Then the whole multitude of the country of the
Gadarenes round about besought him to depart
from them ; for they were taken with great fear :
and he went up into the ship, and returned back
again. Now the man out of whom the devils were
departed besought him that he might be with him :
but Jesus sent him away, saying, " Return to thine
own house, and shew how great things God hath
done unto thee." And he went his way, and pub-
lished throughout the whole city how great things
Jesus had done unto him. And it came to pass,
that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly
received him : for they were all waiting for him.

And, behold, there came a man named Jairus,
and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell
down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he
would come into his house: for he had one only
daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay
a dying. But as he went the people thronged him

And a woman having an issue of blood
twelve years, which had spent all her living upon
physicians, neither could be healed of any, cam?
behind him, and touched the border of
his garment: and immediately her issue ^"fs^r
of blood stanched. And Jesus said, Aprons.
" Who touched me?" When all denied,
Peter and they that were with him said, ' Master,
the multitude throng thee and press thee, and
sayestthou, "Who touched me?" ' And Jesus said,
" Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that
virtue is gone out of me." And when the woman
saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and
falling down before him, she declared unto him
before all the people for what cause she had
touched him. and how she was healed immediately.

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And he said unto her, " Daughter, be of good com-
fort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.7'
While he yet spake, there cometh one from tli6
ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, * Thy
daughter is dead ; trouble not the Master/ But
when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying
"Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made
whole." And when he came into the house, he
suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James,
and John, and the father and the mother of the
maiden. And all wept, and bewailed her: but' li€
said, "Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth."

And they laughed him to scorn, knowing
is it well that she was dead- And he put- them'
child. all out, and took her by the hand, and

2£iA0«4:26. called, saying, "Maid, arise." And her

spirit came again, and she arose straight-
way: and he commanded to give her meat. And
her parents were astonished : but he charged them
that they should tell no man what was done.
Matt. 9: And when Jesu9 departed thence, two
27-31. blind men followed him, crying, and
saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us. And
when he was come into the house, the blind men
came to him : and Jesus saith unto them, Believe
ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him,
Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying,
According to your faith be it unto you. And their
eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them,
sayjng, See that no man knowit. Butthey,when they
were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that

country. And when he was come into
Mat 13: his own country he taught them in

their synagogue, insomuch that they

Tho^rv,of were astonished, and said, i Whence
Anatnoth . ' .

seek thy hath this man this wisdom, and these
hjer. 11:21. mighty works? Is not this the carpen-
ter's son? is not his mother called Mary!

THE GREEN GLENS OF GALILEE 75

and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon,
and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with
us? Whence then hath this man all these things?'
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said
unto them, "A prophet is not without honour save
in his own country, and in his own house." And
he did not many mighty works there because of
their unbelief. And when he had called Matt#
unto him his twelve disciples, he gave lOandiin
them power against unclean spirits, to cast them
out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all
manner of disease. Now the names of the twelve
apostles are these : The first, Simon, who is called
Peter, and Andrew his brother ; James the son of
Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bar-
tholomew ; Thomas, and Matthew the publican ;
James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose
surname was Thaddseus; Simon the Canaanite, and
Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

These twelve Jesus sent forth and
commanded them, saying, " Go not into Siingery
the way of the Gentiles, and into any there is
city of the Samaritans enter ye not : but ecc^i'
go rather to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying,
" The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick,
cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils :
freely ye have received, freely give. Provide
neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats,
neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is
worthy of his meat. And into whatsoever city or
town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy;
and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye
come into an house, salute it. And if the house
be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it
be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And
whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear youi

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words, when ye depart out of that house or city,
shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto
yon, It shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than
for that city."

" Beheld, I send you forth as sheep in the midst
of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and
harmless as doves. But beware of men :
Then Pash- ^or they wiU deliver you u^ to the coun-
hur smote cils, and they will scourge you in theii
the6miah synagogues; and ye shall be brought
prophet. before governors and kings for my sake,
for a testimony against them and the
Gentiles. But when they deliver you
up, take no> thought how or what ye shall speak :
for it shall be given you in that same hour what
ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but
the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to
death, and the father the child : and the children
shall rise up against their parents, and cause them
to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all
men for my name's sake : but he that endureth to
the end shall be saved. But when they persecute
you in this city, flee ye into another : for verily I
say unto you, ' Ye shall not have gone over the
cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.' The
disciple is not above his master, nor the
servant above his lord. It is enough for
finedVnh ^ne disciple that he be as" his master,
new wine, and the servant as his lord- If they
have called the master of the house Beel-
zebub, how much more shall they call
chem of his household?"

"Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing
covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that
shall not be known. What I tell you in darkness,
that speak ye in light: and what ve hear in tb$

THE GREEN GLENS OF GALILEE 77

ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And feai
not them which kill the body, but are
not able to kill the soul : but rather fear
him which is able to destroy both soul JJJjSSd
and body in hell. Are not two sparrows death hatr
sold for a farthing? and one of them "evP2o™6^,
shall not fall on the ground without your
Father. But the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye
are of more value than many sparrows. Whoso-
ever therefore shall confess me before men, him
will I confess also before my Father which is in
heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men,
him will I also deny before my Father which is in
heaven."

" Think not that T have come to send
peace on earth : I came not to send peace, Eyen thyl
but a sword. For I am come tot set a brethren
man at variance against his father, and
the daughter against her mother, and the daughter
in law against her mother in law. And a man's
foes shall be they of his own household. He that
loveth father or mother more than me is not
worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. And he that
taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not
worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose
it : and he that loseth his life for my sake shall
find it."

" He that receiveth you receive th me,
and he that receiveth me receiveth him ^£££2
that sent me- He that receiveth a be in us.
prophet in the name of a prophet shall ^fenl7:21
receive a prophet's reward ; and he that
receiveth a righteous man in the name^ of a
righteous man shall receive a righteous man's
reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto

78 THE MAN OF GALILEE

one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in
the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he
shall in no wise lose his reward." And it came to
pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding
his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach
Matt. 14: and to preach in their cities. At that
i-1** time Herod the tetrarch [of Galilee and

Perea] heard of the fame of Jesus, and said unto
nis servants, ' This is John the Baptist ; he is risen
from the dead; and therefore mighty works do
cshew forth themselves in him.' For Herod had
laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him
in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother
godsdohto Philip'8 w^e- F°r John said unto him,
me. ' It is not lawful for thee to have her/

lirii9*:22 And when he would have put him to
death, he feared the multitude, because
they counted him as a prophet. But when
Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Hero-
dias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her
whatsoever she would ask. And she, being before
instructed of her mother, said, 'Give me here John
Baptist's head in a charger.' And the king was
sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them
which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to
be given her. And he sent, and beheaded John in
the prison. And his head was brought in a
charger, and given to the damsel : and she brought
it to her mother. And his disciples came, and
took up the body, and buried it, and went and told
Jesus. When Jesus heard of it, he departed
thence by ship into a desert place apart : and when
the people had heard thereof, they followed him on
foot out of the cities. And Jesus went forth, and
saw a great multitude, and was moved with com-
passion toward. them, and he healed their sick«
And the passover, a feast of the Jews,

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was nigh. When Jesus then lifted up John 6:
his eyes, and saw a great company come *'18#
unto him, he saith unto Philip, " Whence shall we
buy bread, that these may eat?" And this he said
to prove him : for he himself knew what
he would do. Philip answered him,
' Two hundred pennyworth of bread is fhis'beforT
not sufficient for them, that every one an hundred
of them may take a little.' One of his Tmngs 4 .• 43
disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's
brother, saith unto him, 'There is a
lad here which hath five barley loaves, and two
small fishes: but what are they among so many'?'
And Jesus said, " Make the men sit down/' Now
there was much grass in the place. So the men
sat down, in number about fiye thousand. And
Jesus too& the loaves; and when he had given
thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the
disciples to them that were set down, and likewise
of the fishes as much as they wrould. When they
wTere filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up
the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled
twelve baskets with the fragments of the five
barley loaves, which remained over and above unto
them that had eaten. Then those men, when they
had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, ' This is
of a truth that prophet that should come into the
world.' When Jesus therefore perceived that they
would come and take him by force, to make him a
king, he straightway constrained his disciples to
get into a ship, and to go before him Mattli:
unto the other side, while he sent the 22"23
multitudes away. And when he had sent the
multitudes away, he went up into a mountain
Apart to pray : and when the evening was come, he
was there alone. But the ship was now in the
midst of the sea, tossed with waves : for the wind

gO THE MAN OF GALILEE

was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the

night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

And when the disciples saw him walking on the

sea, they were troubled, saying, ' It ig a spirit ; '

and they cried out for fear. But straightway

Jesus spake unto them, saying, " Be of good cheer ;

it is I; be not afraid." And Peter

answered him and said, i Lord, if it be

prov^but thou, bid me come unto thee on the

this once, water.' And he said, " Come." And

when Peter was come down out of the

ship, he walked on the water, fed go to

Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he

was afraid ; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying,

1 Lord, save me.' And immediately Jesus

stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said

unto him, " O thou of little faith, wherefore didst

thou doubt?" And when they were come into the

ship, the wind ceased. Then they that were in the

ship came and worshipped him, saying, * Of a

truth thou art the Son of God/

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CHAPTER VI

Zbc far "Wortb

^^^HE day following, when the
i people which stood on the other 6^"i

^1^ side of the sea saw that

there was none other boat there,
save that one whereinto his disciple?* were
entered, and that Jesus went not with his
disciples into the boat, but that his dis-
ciples were gone away alone ; (howbeit there came
other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place
where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had
given thanks :) when the people therefore saw that
Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also
took shipping, and came to Canoria^im, seeking
for Jesus. And wThen they had found him on the
other side of the sea, they said unto him, ' Rabbi,
when earnest thou hither?' Jesus answered th^m
and said, " Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Ye seek me. not because ye saw the Give me
miracles, but because ye did eat of the power!1S
loaves, and were filled. Labour not for Acts 8 : 19
the meat which perisheth, but for that
meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which
the Son of man shall sdve unto you : for him hath
God the Father sealed." Then said they unto him,
i What shall we do, that we might work the works
of God1?' Jesus answered and said unto them,
" This is the work of God, that ye believe on him
whom he hath sent." They said therefore unto
him, ' What sign shewet> thou then, that we may

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84 THE MAN OF GALILEE

see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? Our

fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is

written, He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.'

Then Jesus said unto them, " Verily, verily, I say

unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from

heaven ; but my Father giveth yon the true bread

from heaven. For the bread of God is he which

cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto

the world." Then said they unto him, ' Lord,

evermore give us this bread/ And Jesus said unto

them, •« I am tlie bread of life : he that cometh to

me shall never hunger ; and he that believeth on

me shall never thirst. But I said unto you, That

ye also have seen me, and believe not- All that

the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him

that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For

I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will,

but the will of him that sent me. And this is the

Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which

he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should

raise it up again at the last day. And this is the

will of him that sent me, that every one which

seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have

everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last

day." The Jews then murmured at him, because

he said, " I am the bread which came down from

heaven." And they said, ' Is not this Jesus, the

son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know ?

how is it then that he saith, I came down from

heaven' ? Jesus therefore answered and said unto

them, " Murmur not among yourselves. No man

can come to me, except the Father which hath sent

me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last

day. It is written in the prophets, And they

Shall be all taught of God. Every man there*

fore that hath heard, and hath learned of tha

Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath

seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath

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seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that beheveth on me hath everlasting life. I
am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna
in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread
which cometh down from heaven, that a man may
eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread
which came down from heaven : if any man eat
of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread
that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for
the life of the world." The Jews therefore strove
among themselves, saying ' How can this man give
us his flesh to eat?' Then Jesus said unto them,
" Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat
the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood,
ye have no life in you. Who eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I
will raise him up at the last day- For my flesh is
meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He
that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwell-
eth in me, and I in him. As the living Father
hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that
eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that
bread which came down from heaven : not as your
fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that
eateth of this bread shall live for ever." These
things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in
Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples,
when they had heard this, said, ' This is an hard
saying; who can hear it?' When Jesus knew in
himse]f that his disciples murmured at it, he said
unto them, " Doth this offend you? What and if
ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he
was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Put
there are some of you that believe not/' For
Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
believed not, and who should betray him. And he

86 THE MAN OF GALILEE

said, " Therefore said I unto you, that no man can

come unto me, except it were given unto him of

my Father." From that time many

Siftsd as of his disciples went back, and walked

1L?f&et23.3i no more with him. Then said Jesus

unto the twelve, "Will ye also go away V

Then Simon Peter answered him, ' Lord

to whom shall wo go? thou hast the words of

eternal life. And we believe and are sure that

thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.'

Jesrus answered them, " Have not I chosen you

twelve, and one of you is a devil ?" He spake of

Judas Iscariot the son of Simon : for he it was

that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

Then came tc Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which
were of Jerusalem, saying, 'Why do thy
Matt is. disciples transgress the tradition of the
Thou shait elders? for they wash not their hands
"hereto. when tliey eat bread/ But he answered
Deut 12.32. and said unto them, "Why do ye also
transgress the commandment of God by
your tradition ? For God commanded, saying .
Honour thy father and mother : and, He that
curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or
his mother, It is a gift [to God] by whatsoever
thou mightest be profited by me ; and honour not
his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have
ye made the commandment of God of none effect
by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias
prophecy of you, saying, This people drawing nigh
unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with
their lips; but their heart is far from me. But
in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men."

And he called the multitude, and said

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unto them, li Hear and understand : ¥eiatkB»
Not that which goeth into the mouth do- divers'
fileth a man; but that which cometh SS^f'"'
out of the mouth, thi9 defileth a man." ordinance.
Then came his disciples and said unto
him, ' Knoweth thou that the Pharisees were
offended, after they heard this saying?' But he
answered and said, '* Every plant, which my
heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted
up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of
the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both
shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter
and said unto him, ' Declare unto us this parable.'
And Jesus said, " Are ye also yet without under-
standing? Do not ye yet understand, that what-
soever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the
belly, and is cast out into the drought? But
those things which proceed out of the mouth come
forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur-
ders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies : These are the things which defile a
man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth
not a man."

Then Jesus went thence, and departed 7etth£eJi?
into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon afeiL^
And, behold, a woman of Canaan came 17:8
out of the same coasts, and cried unto
him, saying, ' Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou
son of David ; my daughter is grievously vexed
with a devil.' But he answered her not a word.
And his disciples came and besought him, saying,
' Send her away : for she crieth after us.' But he
answered and said, " I am not sent but unto the
lost sheep of the house of Israel " Then came
she and worshipped him, saying, ' Lord, help me.'
But he answered and said, " It is not meet to take

B8 THE MA^ OF GALILEE

the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs-" And
she said, ' Truth, Lord : yet the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from their masters' table.' Then
Jesus answered and said unto her, " O woman,
great is thy faith : be it unto thee even as thou
wilt." And her daughter was made whole from
that very hour. And Jesus departed from thence,
and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and
went up into % mountain, and sat down there
And great multitudes came unto him, having with
them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed
and many others, and cast them down at Jesus'
feet ; and he healed them : Insomuch that the
multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to
speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk,
and the blind to see: and they glorified the God
of Israel.
eu „ „ . Then Jesus called his disciple® unto

Shall all or.. I--I-T- • n

the fish of him, and said, I have compassion on the
gathered36 multitude, because they continue with
together. me now three days, and have nothing to
l?: 22. ©at: and I will rot send them away fast-
ing, lest they faint in the way. And
his disciples say unto him, ' Whence should we
have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so
great a multitude?' And Jesus saith unto them,
" How many loaves have ye 5" And they said,
' Seven, and a few little fishes.' And he com-
manded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and
gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his dis-
ciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And
they did all eat and were filled : and they took vm
of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
And they that did eat were four thousand men,
besides women -and children. And he sent away
the multitude, and took ship and came into the
coasts of Magdala. The Pharisees also

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with the Sadducees came, and tempting Matt 16:
desired him that he would shew them a
sign from heaven. He answered and fentVah
said unto them, " When it is evening, ye thunder
say, It will be fair weather: for the sky fhatday
is red. And in the morning, it will be is«*.u:ia
foul weather to day : for the sky is red and
lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face
of the sky ; but can ye not discern the signs of
the times? A wicked and adulterous generation
seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be
given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas-"
And he left them, and departed.

And when his disciples were come to the other
side they had forgotten to take bread. Then
Jesus said unto them, " Take heed and False
beware of the leaven of the Pharisees brethren

privilv

and of the Sadducees/' And they brought in.
reasoned among themselves, saying, ' It GaL x : 4
is because wTe have taken no bread/ Which when
Jesus perceived, he said unto them, " O ye of little
faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye
have brought no bread ? Do ye not yet under-
stand, neither remember the five loaves of the five
thousand, and how many baskets ye took up \
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand,
and how many baskets ye took up 1 How is it
concerning bread, that ye should be beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Ihen understood they how that he bade
them not beware of the leaven of bread, but
of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees.

And he cometh to Bethsaida ; and Mark g
they bring a blind man unto him, and 22"26*
besought him to touch him. And he took the blind
man by the hand, and led him out of the

90 THE MAN OF GALILEE

littitAhere town > anc* wnen ne nac* SP^ on his eyes
a little. and put his bands upon him, he asked

i*a. 28 : 13. kim if he saw ought. And he looked up
and said, ' I see men as trees, walking/ After
that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and
made him look up and he was restored, and saw
every man clearly. And he sent him away to his
house, saying, " Neither go into the town, nor tell
it to any in the to-wn/
Matt. 16 : When Jesus came into the coasts of
13-28. flaesarea, Philippi, he asked his dis-
ciples, saying, " Whom do- men say that I the Son
of man am V And they said, ' Some say that thou
art John the Baptist: some Elias ; and others
Jeremias, or one of the prophets/ He saith unto
them, " But whom say ye that I am !" And Simon
Peter answered and said, ' Thou art the

The Good Christ, the Son of the living God.' And
Confession. T , n . P , .

l Tim. 6:12. J esus answered and said unto him

" Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona : for

flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,

but my Father which is in heaven. And I say

also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this

rock I will build my church ; and the gates of

hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give

unto' thee the keys of the kingdom -of heaven: and

whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall

be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou

^halt loose on earth shall be loosed in

heaven/' Then charged he his disciples

that they should tell no man that liei was Jesus

the Christ.

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto

Ms discioles, how that he must go unto Jerusalem.

and suffer many things of the elders and chief

priests ?nd scribes, and be killed, and be raised

again the third day. Then Peter took him and

began to rebuke him, saying, ' Be it far from thee,

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Lord : this shall not be unto thee.' But he
turned and said unto Peter, "Get thee behind me,
Satan : thou art an offence unto me : for thou
savourest not the things that be of God, but those
that be of men." Then said Jesus unto his dis-
ciples, " If any man will come after me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow
me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it :
and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall
find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall
gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ? or
what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed
of me and of my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation ; of him also shall the Son
of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory
§rf his Father with the holy angels, and then he
shall reward every man according to his w^orks.
Verily I say unto you. There be some standing
here, which shall not taste of death, till they see
the Son of man coming in his kingdom."

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter
James, and John his brother, and
bringeth them up into an high mountian apart to
pray. And as he was praying he Y/as
transfigured before them: and his face See28L_36k.e 9
did shine as the sun, and his raiment
was white as the light. And, behold, there
appeared unto them Moses and Elias who appeared
in glory, and spake of his decease which Luke9:
he should accomplish at Jerusalem. But 31"33,
Peter and they that were with him were heavy
with sleep : and when they were awake, they saw
his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

And it came to pass, as they departed from him,
Peter said unto Jesus, 'Master, it is Mark 9.5^13
good for us to be here : and let us make
three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses,

92 THE MAIM OF GALILEE

and one for Elias.' For he wist not what to say :
for they were sore afraid. And there was a cloud
that overshadowed them : and a voice came out
of the cloud, saying, This is My belotred Son,
hear Him. And suddenly, when they had looked
round about, they saw no man any morie, save
Jesus only with themselves. And as they
came down from the mountain, he charged
them that they should tell no man what things
they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from
the dead. And they kept that saying with them-
selves, questioning one with another what the
rising from the dead should mean.

And they asked him, saying, i Why say the
scribes that Elizas must first come?' And he
answered and told them, " Elias verily cometh
first, and restoreth all things; and how it is writ-
ten of the Son of man, that he must suffer many
things, and be set at nought. But I say unto
you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done
unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written
of him. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer
of them." Then the disciples understood that he
spake unto them of John the Baptist.
Matt. 17: And when they were come to the

14-27. multitude, there came to him a certain
man, kneeling down to him and saying, ' Lord
have mercy on my son : for he is lunatic, and
sore vexed : for of t times he f alleth into the fire,
and oft into the water. And I brought him to
thy disciples, and they could not cure him.' Then
Jesus answered and said, " O faithless and perverse
generation, how long shall I be with you? how
long shall I suffer you ? bring him hither
know. to me." And Jesus rebuked the devil ;

Acts 19 1 15. ancj ke departed out of him: and the
child was cured from that very hour. Then came
the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, ' Why

THE FAR NORTH 93

could not we cast him out?' And Jesus said
unto them, " Because of your unbelief : for verily
I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain,
Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall re-
move ; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer
and fasting."

And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said
unto them, " The Son of man shall be betrayed
into the hands of men: and they shall kill him,
and the third day he shall be raised again. " And
they were exceeding sorry.

And when they were come to
Capernaum, they that received tribute a ransom

t) a. j -j ( t\ u for his soul,

money came to .Peter, and said, Doth Exod. 30:12

not your master pay tribute?' He saith,

' Yes/ And when he was come into the house,

Jesus prevented him, saying, " What thinkesh

thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth

take custom or tribute? of their own children, or

of strangers?" Peter saith unto him, ' Of

strangers/ Jesus saith unto him, " Then are the

children free. Notwithstanding, lest we should

offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook,

and take up the fish, that first cometh up; and

when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find

a piece of money : that take, and give unto them

for me and thee." At the same time Matt. 18:

came the disciples unto Jesus, saying,

'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of

heaven ? ' And Jesus called a little child unto

him, and set him in the midst of them. And

said, "Verily I say unto- you, Except L1k^nad

ye be converted, and become as little child.

children, ye shall not enter into the Pia" 13X ' 2

kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall

humble himself as this little child, the same is

94 THE MAN OF GALILEE

greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso
shall receive one such little child in my name re-
ceiveth me, and whosoever shall receive me, re-
ceiveth not me, but him that sent me. But whoso
shall offend one of these little ones which believe in
me, it were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned
in the depth of the sea."

Mark 9 : And John answered him saying,

38-41. < Master, we saw one casting out devils
in thy name, and he followeth not us : and we for-
bad him, because he followeth not us/ But Jesus
said, "Forbid him not: For there is no
Kenfte.the man which shall do a miracle in my
judg*» 4 : name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
For he that is not against us is on our
part. For whosoever shall give you a cup of
water to drink in my name, because ye belong to
Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his
reward."
tuio^ io . Woe unto the world because of
7-15. offences . for it must needs be that
Ail things offences come; but woe to* that man
expedient, by whom the oifence cometh ! Where-
icor. 6 .12. fore jf thy band or thy foot offend thee,
cut them off, and cast them from thee :
it is better for thee to enter into life halt or
maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet
to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye
oiTend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee:
it is better for thee toi enter into life with one eye,
rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell
lire. Take heed that ye despise not one of these
little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven
their angels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven- For the Son of man is
come to save that which was lost. How think
ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of

THE FAR NORTH 95

them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety
and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and
seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so he
that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth
more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine
which went not astray. Even so it is not the will
of your Father which ia in heaven, that one of
these little ones should perish. "

"Moreover if thy brother shall tres- Matt# 8j
pass against thee, go and tell him his 15-21.:
fault between thee and him alone : if he shall heai
thee, thou hast gained they brother.
But if he will not hear thee, then take Admonish
with thee one or two more, that in the brotherf
mouth of two or three witnesses every tThes.3: 15
word may be established. And if he
shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church :
but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be
unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven : and whatso-
ever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you
shall agree on earth as touching any thing that
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my
Father which is in heaven. For where two or
three are gathered together in my name there am
I in the midst of them."

Then came Peter to him, and said, Matt. 18 : 21.
' Lord, how oft shall my brother sm 1 will slay
against me, and I forgive him ? till seven ™y brotiier
times V Jemia saith unto him, "I say not Gen^u 27 :
unto thee, 'Until seven times: but, 36"41,
Until seventy timea seven/ Therefore is the
kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king,
which would take account of his servants. And
when he had begun to reckon, one was brought
unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents,

96 THE MAN OF GALILEE ,

But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord com-
manded him to be sold, and his wife, and children,
and all that he had, and payment to be made. The
servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will
pay thee all. Then the lord of that servant was
moved with compassion, and loosed him, and for-
gave him the debt. But the same servant went
out, and found one of his fellowservants, which
owed him an hundred pence*, and he laid hands
on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay
me that thou owest. And his fellowservant fell
down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have
patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And
he would not: but went and cast him into
prison, till he should pay the debt- So when his
fellowservants saw what was done, they were very
sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that
was done. Then his lord, after that he had called
him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I for-
gave thee all that debt, because thou desrredst
me: Shouldest not thou also* have had compassion
on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the
tormentors, till he should pay all that was due
unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father
do also unto you, if ye from your' hearts forgive
not every one his brother their trespasses."

n

OHAPTER VII

Zbe 3erusalem flMnfstr^

OW the Jews' feast of taber-

nacles was at hand. His breth-
ren therefore said unto him, l De-
part hence, and go into Judaea,
that thy disciples also may see the works
that thou doest. For there is no man
that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself
seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these
things, shew thyself to the world.' For neither
did his brethren believe in him. Then Jesus said
unto them, " My time is not yet come: but your
time is alway ready. The world cannot hate you ;
but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the
works thereof are evil. Go ye up unto
this feast; I go not up yet unto this feast,
for my time is not yet full come." When he had
said these words unto* them, he abode still in
Galilee. But when his brethren were gone up,
then went he also up unto the feast, not openly,
but as it were in secret. Then the Jews sought
him at the feast, and said, ' Where is he?' And
there was much murmuring among the people con-
cerning him : for some said, l He is a good man.'
others said, 'Nay; but he deceiveth the people/
Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of
the Jews.

Xow about the midst of the feast j0hn7:
Jesus went up into the temple, and ii-3l.

99

LOFC*

100 THE MAN OF GALILEE

Unlearned taught- And the Jews marvelled, say-
and ing, ' How knoweth this man letters,

Acts™-!*, having never learned?' Jesus answered
them, and said, " My doctrine is not
mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do
his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it
be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that
speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he
that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is
true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Did not
Moses give you the law, and yet none of you
keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me-"
The people answered and said, i Thou hast a devil :
who goeth about to kill thee?' Jesus answered
and said unto them, " I have done one work, and
ye all marvel. Moses therefore gave unto you
circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of
the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circum-
cise a man. If a man on the sabbath day receive
circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be
broken ; are ye angry at me, because I have made
a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge
righteous judgment." Then said some of them of
Jerusalem, ' Is not this he, whom they seek to
kill? But, lo', he? speaketh boldly, and they say
nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed
that this is the very Christ? Howbeit we know
this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh,
no man knoweth whence he is/ Then cried Jesus
-*n the temple as he taught, saying, " Ye both
know me, and ye know whence I am : and I am
not come of myself, but he that sent me is true,
whom ye know not. But I know him : For I am
from him, and he hath sent me." Then they
sought to take him: but no mam laid hands on
him, because his hour was not yet come.
And many of the people believed on him,

THE JERUSALEM MINISTRY 101

and said, ' When Christ cometh, will he £*™/wlth

do more miracles than these which this ail the
man hath done?' ^P2le*47.

The Pharisees heard that the people j0hn7:
murmured such things concerning him ; ^-^
and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers
to take him. Then said Jesus unto them, " Yet
a little while am I with you, and then I go unto
him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not
find me : and where I am thither ye cannot come."
Then said the Jews among themselves, ' Whither
will he go, that we shall not find him ? will he go
unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach
the Gentiles? What manner of saying is this that
he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me:
and where I am, thither ye cannot come?"

In the last day, that great day of the feast
Jesus stood and cried, saying, " If any
man thirst, let him come unto me, and ^1e1°esd#
drink. He that believeth on me, as the Acts 19 : i.
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water." (But this spake he
of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet
given; because that Jesu& was not yet glorified.)
Many of the people therefore, when they heard
this saying, said, ' Of a truth this is the Prophet-'
Others said, 'This is the Christ/ But some said,
' Shall Christ come out of Galilee ? Hath not the
scripture said, that Christ cometh of the seed of
David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where
David was?' So there was a division among the
people because of him. And some of them would
have taken him ; but no man laid hands on him.

Then came the officers to the chief priests and
Pharisees ; and they said unto them, ' Why have
ye not brought him?' The officers answered,
Never man spake like this man.' Then answered

102 THE MAN OF GALILEE

them the Pharisees, ' Are ye also deceived ? Have
any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on
him? But this people who knoweth not the law
are cursed/ Nicodemus saith unto them (he that
came to Jesua by night, being one of them), * Doth
our law judge any man, before it hear him, and
know what he doeth?' They answered and said

Jonah. unto him, ' Art thou also of Galilee ?

2 Kings : Search and look : for out of Galilee
14:25 ariseth no prophet. '

Ji£20?: Then spake Jesus again unto them,

saying, " I am the light of the world:
he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness,
but shall have the light of life/' The Pharisees
therefore said unto him, ' Thou bearest record of
thyself; thy record is not true.' Jesus answered
and said unto them, " Though I bear record of
myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence
I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell
whence I come and whither I go. Ye judge after
the flesh. I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my
judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and
the father that sent me. It is also written in
your law, the testimony of two men is true. I am
one that bear witness of myself, and the Father
that sent me beareth witness of me. Then said
they unto him, 'Where is thy Father?' Jesus
answered, " Ye neither know me, nor my Father :
if ye had known me, ye should have known my
Father also." These words spake Jesus in the
treasury, as he taught in the temple : and no man
laid hands on him ; for his hour was not yet come.
John 8: 21. Then said Jesus again unto them, "I
go my way, and ye< shall seek me, and
guff fixed, shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye
iufc«i6:26 cannot come." Then said the Jews,
1 Will he kill himself?' because he saith. Whither
I go, ye cannot come/ And he said untft them,

THE JERUSALEM MINISTRY 103

" Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are
of this world ; I am not of this world. I said
therefore unto yon, that ye shall die in your sins:
for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in
your sins." Then said they unto him, ' Who art
thou?' And Jesus saith unto them, " Even the
same that I said unto you from the beginning. I
have many things to say and to judge of you : but
he that sent me is true ; and I speak to the world
those things which I have heard of him." They
understood not that he spake to them of the
Father. Then said Jesus unto them, " When ye
have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know
that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself;
but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these
things. And he that sent me is with me : the
Father hath not left me alone; for I do always
those things that please him." As he spake these
words many believed on him.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on
him, "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my
disciples indeed ; and ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free." They answered
him, ' We be Abraham's seed, and were never in
bondage to any man: how sayest thou, YTe shall
be made free?' Jesus answered them, "Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Whosoever commiteth sin
is the servant of sin. And the servant Freefrom
abideth not in the house for ever: but sin.
the Son abideth ever. If the Son there- Rom- 6 : ]8
fore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
I know that ye are Abraham's seed ; but ye seek
to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
I speak that which I have seen with my Father:
and ye do that which ye have seen with your
father." They answered and said unto him, 'Abra-
ham is our father.' Jesus saith unto them, " If
ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works

104 THE MAN OF GALILEE

of Abraham- But now ye seek to kill me, a man
that hath told you the truth, which I have heard
of God : this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds
of your father." Then sard they to him, ' We be
not born of fornication; we have pne Father, even
God.' Jesus said unto them, " If God were your
Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth
and came from God ; neither came I of myself, but
he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech ?
even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of

your father the devil, and the lusts of
He that your father ye will do. He was a mur-
Dflhfi devil. derer from the beginning and abode not
1 John 3:8. in the truth, because there is no truth in

him. When he speak eth a lie, he
speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, and the father
of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe
me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And
if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me ? He
that is of God hear eth God's words : ye therefore
hear them not, because ye are not of God." Then
answered the Jews and said unto him, ' Say we
not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a
devil V Jesus answered, " I have not a devil ;
but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that
seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto
you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see
death." Then said the Jews unto him, ' Now we
know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead,

and the prophets; and thou say est, If a
forever. man keep my saying, he shall never taste
Psaim no : 4. Qf death. Art thou greater than our
father Abraham, which is dead ? and the prophets
axe dead: whom maketh thou thyself?' Jesus
answered, "If I honour myself, my honour is
nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of
wbom ye say, that he is your God : Yet ye have

THE JERUSALEM MINISTRY i'05

not known him ; but I know him : and if I should
say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto }rou .
but I know him, and keep his saying. Your
father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he
saw it, and waa glad-" Then said the
Jewa unto him, ' Thou art not yet fifty Greeted
years old, and hast thou seen Abraham V Heb. 11 : li
Jesus said unto them, " Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." Then
took they up stones to cast at him : but Jesus hid
himself, and went out of the temple, going through
the midst of them, and so passed by. And as
Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was John 9:1#
blind from his birth. And his disciples
asked him, saying, l Master, who did sin, this man,
or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus
answered, " Neither hath this man sinned, nor his
parents: but that the works of God
should be made manifest in him. I not" receive
must work the works of him that sent jYJl2.10
me, while it is day : the night cometh,
when no man can work. As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the world." When he
had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made
clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of
the blind man with the clay. And said unfco him,
" Go, wash in the pool of Siloam," (which ia by
interpretation, Sent.) He went his way there-
fore, and washed, and came seeing. The neigh-
bours therefore:, and they which before had seen
him that he was blind, said, ' Is not this he that
sat and begged?' Some said, ' This is he': others
said, ' He is like him': but he said, 'I am he.'
Therefore said they unto him, ' How were thine
eyes opened?' He answered and said, 'A man
that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine
eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam,
and wash : and I went and washed, and I received

106 THE MAN OF GALILEE

sight.' Then said they unto him, ' Where is he?'
He said, ' I know not/ They brought to the
Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. And it
was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay,
and opened his eyes. Then again the Pharisees
also asked hi'm how he had received his sight. He
said unto them, ' He put clay upon mine eyes, and
I washed and do see.' Therefore said some of the
Pharisees, ' This man is not of God, because he
keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, ' How
can a man that is a sinner do such miracles V And
there was a division among them. They say unto
the blind man again, ' What sayest thou of him,
that he hath opened thine eyes?' He said, ' He is.
a prophet/ But the Jews did not believe con-
cerning him, that he had been blind, and received
his sight, until they called the parents of him that
had received his sight. And they asked them,
saying, ' Is this your son, who ye say was born
blind? how then doth he now see?' His parents
answered them and said, ' We know that this is
our son, and that he was born blind : But by what
means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath
opened his eyes, ?vTe know not : he is
of age ; ask him : he shall speak for him-
self ? These words spake his parents, because they
feared the Jews : for the Jews had agreed already,
that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he
should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore
said his parents, ' He is of age; ask him.'

c _ Then again called they the man that
fession. was blind, and said unto him, ' Give
Joshua 7: 19. Q-od the praise : we know that this man
is a sinner/ He answered and said, ' Whether he
be a sinner or no, I know not : one thing I know,
that, whereas I was blind, now I see/ Then said
they to him again, 'What did he to thee? how
opened h$ thine eye®?' He answered them, ' I

THE JERUSALEM MINISTRY 107

have told you already, and ye did not hear: where-
fore would ye hear it again? will ye also Joe his
disciples?' Then they reviled him, and said,
1 Thou art his disciple ; but we are Moses'
disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses :
as for this fellow, we know not from whence he
is/ The man answered and said unto them, ' Why
herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not
from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine
eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners :
but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth
his will, him he heareth. Since the world began
was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of
one that was born blind. If this man were not
of God, he could do nothing.' They answered and
said unto him, ' Thou wast altogether born in sins,
an dost thou teach us?' And they cast him out.

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and
when he had found him, he said unto him, "Dost
thou believe on the Son of God?" He answered
and said, ' Who is he, Lord, that I might believe
on him?' And Jesus said unto him, " Thou hast
both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee."
And he said, ' Lord, I believe.' And he wor-
shipped him. And Jesus said, " For

iudprrient I am come into this world, that £ rebel-
ii. i_- i. • -, , -j ,1 i lioushouse

they which see not might see ; and that jEzek. 12 : 2

they which see might be made blind-"

And some of the Pharisees which were with him

heard these words, and said unto- him, * Are we

blind also V Jesus said unto them, " If ye* were

blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye

say, We see ; therefore your sin remaineth.

Verily, verily, I say unto you,

He that entereth not by the dcor Johnl0:

into thee shepfold, but climbeth up some

other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But be that entereth in by the door is the shep-

108 THE MAN OF GALILEE

herd of tKe sheep. To him the porter openeth ;
and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his
awn sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And
when ho putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth be-
fore them, and the sheep follow him: for they
know his voice. And a stranger will they not
follow, but will flee from him : for they know not
the voice of strangers." This parable spake Jesus
unto them : but they understood not what
things they were which he spake untc
them. Then said Jesus unto them again,
" Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door erf
the sheep. All that ever came before me are
thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear
them. I am the door : by me if any man enter in,
he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find
pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy : I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly. I am the good shepherd : the good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he
that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose
own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and
leaveth the sheep, and neeth : and the wolf
catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The
hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and
careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd,
and know my sheep, and am known of mine. Ai
the Father knoweth me, even so know I ths
Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold *
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my
voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shep-
herd. Therefore doth my Father love me, be-
cause 1 lay down my life, that I might
He made take it again- No man kaketh it from
fi£lh 2n:ei4. me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
power to lay it down, and I b*v§

THE JERUSALEM MINISTRY 109

power to take it again. This commandment
have I received of my Father."

There was a division therefore again among the
Jews for these sayings. And many of them said
' He hath a devil, and is mad ; why hear ye him V
Others said, ' These are not the wrords of him that
hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind V

And every man wTent unto his own house. ,...«,

-r J , r. John 7 : 53

Jesus went unto the mount of w.m Q.

r\T * i i«i • John 8:

Olives. And early in the morning l-u.

he came again into the temple,
and all the people came unto him; and he sat
down and taught them. And the scribes and
Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in
adultery; and wThen they had set her in the
midst, They say unto him, ' Master, this woman
was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses
in the law commanded us, that such Thou con-
should be stoned : but what sayest thou V th^SS!*
This they said, tempting him, that they Romans 2 : l,
might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped
down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as
though he heard them not. So when they con-
tinued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said
unto them, " He that is without sin among you, let
him first cast a stone at her." And again he
stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And
they which heard it, being convicted by their own
conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the
eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was left alone,
and the woman standing in the midst. When
Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the
woman, he said unto her, " Woman, where are
those thine accusers ? hath no man condemned
thee?" She said, ' No man, Lord.' And Jesus
said unto herf "Neither do I condemn thee: go,
and sin no more." And it was at Jeru- John 10:
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it was winter- And Jesus walked in the temple
in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round
about him, and said unto him, 'How long dost thou
make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly/ Jesus answered them, " I told you, and
ye believed not: the wrorks that I do in my
Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye
believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I
said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me : And I give unto
them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than
all ; and no man is able to pluck them out of my
Father's hand. I and my Father are one." Then
the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus
answered them, " Many good works have I shewed
you from my Father; for which of those works do
ye stone me?" The Jews answered him, saying,
' For a good work we stone thee not ; but for blas-
phemy; and because that thou, being a man,
makest thyself God.' Jesus answered them, " Is
it not written in your law, I said, Ye are Gods?
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of
God came, and the scripture cannot be broken ;
say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified,
and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; be-
cause I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not
the works of my Father, believe me not. But if
I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works:
that ye may know, and believe, that the Father
is i'n me, and I in him." Therefore they sought
again to take him : but he escaped out of their hands.
And he went away again beyond Jordan into
the place where John at first baptized ; and there
he abode. And many resorted unto him, and said,
1 John did no miracle : but all things that John
spake of this man were true/ And many believed
cm him there.

CHAPTER VIII

£be Jfar j£ast

HXD it came to pass, when the Luke 9:
time was come that he should 51-56.
be received up, he stedfastly set his
face to go to Jerusalem. And sent
messengers before his face : and they went and
entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make
ready for him. And they did not receive him,
because his face was as though he would go to
Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and
John saw this, they said, ' Lord, wilt thou that we
command fire to come down from heaven, and
consume them, even as Elias did ?' But he turned
and rebuked them, and said, "Ye know not what
manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is
not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them/'
And they went to another village.

After these things the Lord appointed Luke 10:
other seventy also, and sent them two I_l6-
and two before his face into every city and place.
whither he himself would come. Therefore said
he unto them, " The harvest truly is great, but the
labourers are few ; pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he would send forth labourers
into his harvest. Go your ways : behold I send you
forth as lambs anion o- wolves. Carry neither
purse nor scrip, nor shoes : and salute no man by
the way. And in to whatsoever house ye enter, first
say. Peace be to this house. And if the son of
peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it : if not,

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it shall turn to you again. And in the same house
remain, eating and drinking such things as they
give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go
not from house to house. And into whatsoever
city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things
as are set before you : and heal the sick that are
therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is
come nigh unto you. But into whatsoever city ye
enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out
into the streets of the same, and say, Even the very
dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe
off against you : notwithstanding be ye sure of this,
that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable
in that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe
unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida I
for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, which have been done in you, they had
a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and
Sidon at the judgment, than for you. And thou,
Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be
thrust down to hell. He that heareth you heareth
me ; and he that despiseth you despiseth me ; and
he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me."
And behold, a certain lawyer stood
Luke 10 : up, and tempted him, saying, ' Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life ? '
He said unto him, " What is written in the law?
How readest thou ? " And he answering said,
i Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind ; and thy neighbour
as thyself/ And he said unto him, " Thou hast
answered right : this do, and thou shalt live.'* But
he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And
who is my neighbour ? ' And Jesus answering

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said, " A certain man went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves,
which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded
him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by
chance there came down a certain priest that way .
and when he saw him, he passed by on the other
side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the
place, came and looked on him, and passed by on
the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he
journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw
him, he had compassion on him, and went to him,
and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine,
and set him on his own beast, and brought him to
an inn, and took eare of him. And on the morrow
when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave
them to the host, and said unto him, * Take care of
him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I
come again, I will repay thee/ Which Cl0thed thfk
now of these three, thinkest thou, was naked.
neighbour unto him that fell among the * Chron'28: 15«
thieves?" And he said, 'He that shewed mercy
on him.' Then said Jesus unto him, " Go, and do
thou likewise."

Now it came to pass, as they went, Luke 10.
that he entered into a certain village : 38-42* "
and a certain woman named Martha received
him into her house. And she had a sister called
Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard nig
word. But Martha was cumbered about To behoW
much serving, and came to him, and the beauty
said, ' Lord, dost thou not care that my psaim 27°-4.
sister hath left me to serve alone ?
Bid her therefore that she help me.' And Jesus
answered and said unto her, " Martha, Martha,
thou art careful and troubled about many things ■
But one thing is needful : and Mary hath chosen that
good part, which shall not be taken away from her tH

US THE MAN OP GALILEE

And it came to pass, that, as he w<*,s
u * : praying in a certain place, when he

ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord,
teach us to pray, as John also taught his
disciples. And he said unto them, " When ye
prayC say, Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. Give us
day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our
gins ; for we also forgive every one that is indebted
to us. And lead us not into temptation; but
deliver us from evil.

And he said unto them, Which of
rhe Lord you shall have a friend, and shall go
*niry.0t b§ un^° nmi a^ midnight, and say unto him,
&en. is : &. Friend, lend me three loaves ; for a
friend of mine, in his journey is come
to me, and I have nothing to set before him ? And
be from within shall answer and say, Trouble me
not : the door is now shut, and my children are
with me in bed; I cannot rise and give. I say
unto you, Though he will not rise and give him,
because he is his friend, yet because of his impor-
tunity he will rise and give him as many as he
needeth. And 1 say unto you, " Ask, and it shall
be given you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that
a-sketh receiveth ; and he that seeketh findeth ; and
to him that knocketh it shall be opened. If a son
shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will
he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he foi
a fish give him a serpent ? Or if he shall ask an
egg, wall he offer him a scorpion? If ye, then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children : how much more shall your heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him?"

THE FAR EAST 117

And the seventy returned again
with joy, saying, ' Lord, even the devils j£jj£ w
are subject unto us through thy name.' LucIfer 80n
And he said unto them, "I beheld Satan of the '
as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, ™*ahu':U
I give unto you power to tread on ser-
pents and scorpions, and over all the power of the
enemy : and nothing shall by any means hurt you*
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits
are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because
your names are written in heaven. " In that hour
Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, "I thank thee, O
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and
hast revealed them unto babes : even so, Father ;
for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are
delivered to me of my Father : and no man
knoweth who the son is, but the Father ; and who
the Father is but the Son, and he to whom
the Son will reveal him." And he turned
him unto his disciples, and said privately, ™eis desire
"Blessed are the eyes which see the *%*°°rV-nA°
things that ye see: For I tell you,
that many prophets and kings have desired to see
those things which ye see, and have not seen them ;
and to hear those things which ye hear, and have
not heard them/' _ _ ..

xt i • • i Jonn 11.

Now a certain man was sick,
named Lazarus, of Bethany the town of Mary
and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary
which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped
his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was
sick). Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying,
1 Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.' When
Jesus heard that, he said, " This sickness is not
unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son
of God might be glorified thereby." Now Jesus

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ioved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When
he had heard therefore that he was sick,
returned to he abode two days still in the same
iytStz4*- 21 P^ace where he was. Then after that saith
he to his disciples, " Let us go into
Judaea again." His disciples say unto him, * Master,
the Jews of late sought to stone thee ; and goest
thouthither again ? ' Jesus answered, " Are there
not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in
the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the
light of this world. Bat if a man wTalk in the
night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in
him.,; These things said he : and after that he
saith unto them, " Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ;
but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. * Then
said his disciples, ' Lord, if he sleep, he shall do
well.' Howbeit Jesus spake of his death : but they
thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in
sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, " Lazarus
is dead. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not
there, to the intent ye may believe ; nevertheless lef
us go unto him," Then said Thomas, which is called
Didymus, unto his fellow-disciples, * Let us also go,
ihat we may die with him.'

Then when Jesus came, he found that he had
Iain in the grave four days already. Nowr Bethany
was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs
off: And many of the Jews came to Martha and
Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.
Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was
coming, went and met him ; but Mary sat still in
the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, 'Lord,
if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt
ask of God, God will give it thee.' Jesus saith unto
her, " Thy brother shall rise again." Martha
saith unto him. ' I know that he shall rise

THE FAR EAST 119

again in the resurrection at the last S%nS!i<8fcttl
day.' Jesus said unto her, " I am the life.
resurrection, and the life: he that mh7il€-
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me
shall never die. Believeth thou this? " She saith
unto him, ' Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the
Christ,' the Son of God, which should come into the
world.'

And when she had so said, she went her way, and
called Mary her sister secretly, saying, * The Master
is come, and calleth for thee.' As soon as she
heard that, she arose quickly and came unto him.
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but wag
in that place where Martha met him. The Jews
then which were with her in the house, and com-
forted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up
hastily and w^ent out, followed her, saying, ' She
goeth unto the grave to weep there.' Then when
Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she
fell down at his feet, saying unto him, 'Lord, if
thou hadst been here,#my brother had not died/
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the
Jews also weeping which came with her, he
groaned in the spirit and was troubled. And said,
" Where have ye laid him ? " They said unto him,
1 Lord, come and see/ Jesus wept. Then said the
Jews, 'Behold how he loved him P And some of
them said, ' Could not this man, which opened the
eyes of the blind have caused that even this man
should not have died?'

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh
to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon
it. Jesus said, " Take ye away the stone." Martha,
the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him,
1 Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been
dead four days.' Jesus saith unto her, " Said I

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not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God ? " Then they took
away the stone from the place where the dead was
laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said,
" Father, I thank thee that thou has heard me.
And I knfcw that thou hearest me always: but
because of the people which stand by I said it, that
they may believe that thou has sent me." And
when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud
voice, " Lazarus, come forth." And he that was
dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-
clothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin.
Jesus saith unto them, " Loose him and let him go."
Then many of the Jews which came to Mary,
Pharaoh's and had seen the things which Jesus
hardened! did, believed on him. But some of
Exod. 7 : 13. them went their ways to the Pharisees,
and told them what things Jesus had done.

John n : Then gathered the chief priests and

47-54. the Pharisees a council, and said,

' What do we ? for this man doeth many miracles.
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on
him : and the Eomans shall come and take away
both our place and nation.' And one of them,
named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same
year, said unto them, ' Ye know nothing at all, nor

consider that it is expedient for us, that
soan**IBcor,e one man should die for the people, and
saith. that the whole nation perish not.' And

this spake he not of himself : but being
high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus
should die for that nation ; and not for that nation
only, but that also he should gather together in
one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Then from that day forth they took counsel togeth
for to put him to death.

THE FAR EAST 121

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among
the Jews ; but went thence unto a country near to
the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and
there continued with his disciples, by the farther
side of Jordan : and the people resort Mark 1Q . t
unto him again ; and, as he was wont,
he taught them again; and he healed Matt'19:2»
them there.

And he was teaching in one of the Luke is :
synagogues on the sabbath. And, 10"21*
behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of
infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together,
and could in no wise lift up herself. TheLord
And when Jesus saw her, he called her heaieth thee.
to him, and said unto her, " Woman, JExl^:36-
thou art loosed from thine infirmity.'' And he laid
his hands on her : and immediately she was made
straight and glorified God. And the ruler of the
synagogue answered with indignation, because that
Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto
the people, ■ There are six days in which men ought
to work: in them therefore come and be healed,
and not on the sabbath day.' The Lord then
answered him, and said, " Thou hypocrite, doth not
each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his
ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering ?
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these
eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the
sabbath day ? " And when he had said these things,
all his adversaries were ashamed : and all the people
rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done
by him. Then said he, " Unto what is the king-
dom of God like ? and whereunto shall I resemble
it ? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a
man took, and cast into his garden ; and it grew,
and waxed a great tree ; and the fowls of the air

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lodged in the branches of it." And again he said,

"Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God ? Ifc

is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three

measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. "

Luke 13 : x\nd he went through the cities and

10-83. villages, teaching, and journeying

Shth*e? that toward Jerusalem. Then said one

John 21 : 22. Unto him, ' Lord, are there few that be

saved ? ' And he said u$to them, " Strive to enter

in at the strait gate : for many, I gay unto you will

peek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once

the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut

to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to

knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto

us ; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know

you not whence ye are : Then shall ye begin to

say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and

thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say

I tell you, I know you not whence ye are ; depart

from me all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be

weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see

Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the

prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves

ihrust out. And they shall come from the east.

and from the west, and from the north, and from

the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of

God. And, behold, there are last which shall be

first, and there are first which shall be last."

Perfect The same day there came certain ol

suffering. the Pharisees, saying unto him, 4 Gef;

Heb. 2 : io. thee out, and depart hence : for Herod

will kill thee.' And he said unto them, " Go

ye, and tell that fox, Behold I cast out devils, and

I do cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day

1 shall be perfected. Nevertheless I must walk to

day, and to morrow, and the day following : for il

cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

THE FAR EAST 123

0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets,
and stouest them that are sent unto thee ; how
often would I have gathered thy children together,
as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings,
and ye would not ! Behold, your house is left unto
you desolate : and verily I say unto you, Ye shall
not see me, until the time come when ye shall say,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."

And it came to pass, as he went into L
the house of one of the chief Pharisees
to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched
him. And, behold, there was a certain man before
him which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering
spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, " Is
it lawful to heal on the sabbath day ? " And they
held their peace. And he took him, and healed
him and let him go ; and answered them, saying,
11 Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen
into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on
the sabbath day ? " And they could not answer
him again to these things.

And he put forth a parable to those which were
bidden, when he marked how they chose out the
chief rooms; saying unto them, " When thou art
bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in
the highest room ; lest a more honourable man
than thou be bidden of him ; And he that bade
thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man
place ; and thou begin with shame to take the
lowest room. But when thou art bidden, go and
sit down in the lowest room ; that when
he that bade thee cometh, he may say Sit nnder

,, tt, . -. i . i J,i my footstool.

unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then james2:3.
shalt thou have worship in the presence
of them that sit at meat with thee. For whosoever
exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.' '

124 THE MAN OF GALILEE

Then said he also to him that bade him, " When
thou, makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy
friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor
thy rich neighbours ; lest they also bid thee again,
f.nd a recompense be made thee. But when thou
makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame,
the blind : And thou shalt be blessed ; for they
cannot recompense theer^trr thou shalt be re-
wisdom compensed at the resurrection of the
hath just." And when one of them that sat

herntabf<£ a^ meat with him heard these things
Prov.9: 2. he said unto him, " Blessed is he that
shall eat bread in the kingdom of God."

Then said he unto him, " A certain man made
a great supper, and fcade many: And sent his
servant at supper time to say to them that were
bidden, Come ; for all things are now ready.
And they all with one consent began to make
excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a
piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it : I
pray thee have me excused. And another said, I
have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove
them : I pray thee have me excused. And another
said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot
come. So that servant came, and shewed his lord
these things. Then the master of the house being
angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the
streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither
the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the
blind. And the servant said, Lord, ifc is done as
thou hast commanded, and yet there is room, kndf
the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to conn*
in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto
you, That none of those men which were bidden
shall taste of my supper/'

THE FAR EAST 125

And there went great multitudes Luk

with him : and he turned, and said unto ~. „, "
, T. Dionysiu

them, "If any man come to me, and the
hate not his father, and mother, and wife, 5J2°S?3i?
and children, and brethren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my
disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross,
and come after me, cannot be my disciple. For
which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth
not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he
have sufficient to finish it ? Lest haply, after he
hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish
it, all that behold it begin to mock him. Saying,
This man began to build, and was not able to
finish. Or what king, going to make war against
another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth
whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him
that cometh against him with twenty thousand ?
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he
sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of
peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that
fojsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my
disciple. " " Salt is good: but if the salt have lose
us savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned ? It is
neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill ;
but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear." Then drew near unto him all the
publicans and sinners for to hear him. L . , ffi
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured,
saying, * This man receiveth sinners, and eateth
with them.' And he spake this parable unto them,
saying, "What man of you, having an hundred
sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not
leave the ninety and nine in the f^nghi : a.
wilderness, and go after that which is
lost, until he find it ? And when he hath found it, he
layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he

126 THE MAN OF GALILEE

coineth home, he calleth together his friends and
neighbours, saying unto them, Eejoice with me;
for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say
unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over
one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety
and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

' 'Either what woman* having ten pieces of silver,
if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and
sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it.
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends
and her neighbours together, saying, Eejoice with
me ; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
Likewise. I say unto you, there is joy in the
presence of the angels of God over one sinner that
repenteth."

And he said, "A certain man had
Gen°27:43. two sons : And the younger of them
said to his father, Father, give me the
portion of goods that falleth to me. And he
divided unto them his living. And not many days
after the younger son gathered all together, and
took his journey into a far country, and there
wasted his substance with riotous living. And
when he had spent all, th^re arose a mighty famine
in that land ; and he began to be in want. And he
went and joined himself to a citizen of that
country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed
swine. And he would fain have filled his belly
with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man
gave unto him. And when he came to himself he
said, How many hired servants of my father's have
bread enough and to spare, and I perish with
hunger ! I will arise and go to my father, and will
Bay unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and before thee, And am no more worthy to be
called thy son : make me as one of thy hired
servants. And he arose, and came to his father.

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but when he was yet a great way off, his fathei
saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on
his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto
him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in
thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy
son. But the father said to his servants, Bring
forth the best robe, and put it on him ; and put a
ring on his hand and shoes on his feet : And bring
hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat,
and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is
alive again ; he was lost, and is found. And they
began to be merry. Now his elder son Esau
was in the field: and as he came and Gen. 32: 6.
drew nigh to the house he hea^d musick and
dancing. And he called one of the servants, and
asked what these things meant. And he said
unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath
killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him
safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not
go in : therefore came his father out, and intreated
him. And he answering said to his father, Lo,
these many years do I serve thee, neither trans-
gressed I at any time thy commandment : and yet
thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry
with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was
come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots,
thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he
said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and
all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should
make merry, and be glad : for this thy brother was
dead, and is alive again : and was lost, and is found.'

And he said also unto his disciples, Luke 16#
" There was a certain rich man, which had a
steward ; and the same was accused unto him that
he had wasted his goods. And he called Be found
him, and said unto him, How is it that I faithful.
hear this of thee? give an account of 1.Cor-4:$

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thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer
steward. Then the steward said within himself,
What shall I do ? for my lord taketh away from,
me the stewardship : I cannot dig ; to bpg I am
ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that, wThen 1
am put out of the stewardship, they may receive
me into their houses. So he called every one of his
lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How
much owest thou unto my lord ? And he said, An
hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him,
Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
Then said he to another, And how much owest
thou? And he said, An hundred measures of
wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill,
and write fourscore. And the lord com-
mended the unjust steward, because he had
done wisely : for the children of this world are
in their generation wiser than the children of
light.

Let them " ^n<^ ^ Sa^ Un^'° J™' ^a^e ^° your-

flrst be selves friends of the mammon of urn

FrTimd8:io. righteousness ; that, when ye fail, they
may receive you into everlasting habita-
tions. He that is faithful in that which is least is
faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the
least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have
not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who
will commit to your trust the true riches ? And if
ye have not been faithful in that which is another
man's, who shall give you that which is your
own ? No servant can serve two
Luke i6:H-3i. masters : for either he will hate the one,
and love the other ; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon "

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous,
heard all these things : and they derided him.

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And he said unto them. "Ye are they Naked and
which justify yourselves before men ; open. ^
but God knoweth your hearts : for
that which is highly esteemed among men is
abomination in the sight of God. The law and the
prophets were until John : since that time the
kingdom of God is preached, and every man
presseth into it. And it is easier for heaven and
earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
'Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth
another, committeth adultery : and whosoever
marrieth her that is put away from her husband
committeth adultery."

" There was a certain rich man which was
clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared
sumptuously every day. And there was a certain
beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his
gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the
crumbs that fell from the rich man's table: more-
over the dogs came and licked his sores. And it
came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried
by the angels into Abraham's bosom : the rich man
also died, and was buried ; And in hell he lift up
his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham
afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried
and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am
to1 mented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son,
remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy
gcod things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but
now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And
beside all this, between us and you
there is a great gulf fixed : so that they ^rtion is in
which would pass from hence to you this life.

Psa 17 * 14

cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that

would come from thence. Then he said, I pray

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thee Aherefore, father, that thou wouldst send him
to my fat.ner's house ! For I have five brethren;
that he may testify unto them, lest they also come
into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto
him, They have Moses and the prophets ; let them
hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham :
but if one went unto them from the dead, they
will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear
not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Luke n: MO. Then said he unto the disciples, " It
is impossible but that offences will come i
Bear no but woe un^° ^m through whom they

grudge. come! It were better for him that a

millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he cast into the sea, than that he
should offend one of these little ones. Take heed
to yourselves : If thy brother trespass against thee,
rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him. And if
he trespass ag linst thee seven times in a day, and
seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I
repent : thou shalt forgive him."

And the apostles said unto the Lord, ' Increase
our faith/ And the Lord said, " If ye had faith
as a grain of mustaid seed, ye might say unto this
irycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and
be* thou planted in the sea ; and it should obey you.
But which of you, having a servant, plowing or
feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when
he is come from the field, Go and sit down to
meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make
**eady wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and
serve me, till I have eaten and drunken ; and after-
ward thou shalt eat and drink ? Doth he thank
that servant because he did the things that were
commanded him ? I trow not. So likewise ye,
when ye shall have done all those things which

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are commanded you, say, We are un-

profitable servants : we have done that recompensed.

which was our duty to do." Rom 11:35'

And when he was demanded of the
Pharisees, when the kingdom of God
should come, he answered them and said, " The
kingdom of God cometh not with observation :
Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for
behold the kingdom of God is within you." And
he said unto the disciples, " The days will come,
when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the
Son of man, and ye shall not see it. And they
shall say to you, See here ; or see there : go not
after them, nor follow them. For as the lightning,
that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven,
shineth unto the other part under heaven ; so shall
also the Son of man be in his day. But first must
lie suffer many things, and be rejected of this
feneration. And as it was in the days of Noe,
so shall it be also in the days of the Son of
man. They did eat, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came,
and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in
the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted, they builded ; but
the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed
them all. Even thus shall it be in the The Anrfel 0j
clay when the Son of man is revealed, the Lord.
In that day, he which shall be upon the 6a* 37 * 36*
housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not
fome down to take it away : and he that is in the
field, let him likewise not return back. Remember
Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life
:hall lose it ; and whosoever shall lose his life shall
preserve it. I tell you, in that night there shall bo

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two men in one bed ; the one shall be taken,
and the other shall be left. Two women shall
be grinding together; the one shall be taken,
and the other left. Two men shall be in the field;
the one shall be taken, and the other left." And
they answered and said unto him, ' Where, Lord?1
And he said unto them, " Wheresoever the body is,
thither will the eagles be gathered together."

And he spake a parable unto them tc
this end, that men ought always tc
pray, and not to faint ; saying, " There was ir
a city a judge, which feared not God, neithei
regarded man : and there was a widow in thai
city ; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me o;
mine adversary. And he would not for a while
but afterward he said within himself, Though I feai
not God, nor regard man ; yet because this widow
Esther 8 troubleth me, I will avenge her,
lest by her continual coming she
weary me." And the Lord said, " Hear what the
unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his
own elect, which cry day and night unto him,
though he bear long with them ? I tell you that he
will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the
Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the
earth ? " And he spake this parable unto certain
which trusted in themselves that they were
righteous, and despised others :
[ had not " ^wo men went up into the temple

Known sin. to pray ; the one a Pharisee, and the
other a publican. The Pharisee stood
and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee,
that I am not as other men are, extortioners,
unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast
twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift
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upon his breast saying, God be merciful to me
a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to
his house justified rather than the other : for every
one that exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he
that humbleth himself shall be exalted."
And the Pharisees came to him, and
asked him, ' Is it lawful for a man to
put away his wife?' tempting him. And he
answered and said unto them, "What The wife of
did Moses command you?" And they thy youth,
said, * Moses suffered to write a bill of
divorcement, and to put her away.' And Jesus
answered and said umo them, " For the hardness
of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from
the beginning of the creation God made them
male and female. For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife ;
and they twain shall be one flesh : so then they are
no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore
God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder." They say unto him, * Why 19.719

did Moses then command to give a
writing of divorcement, and to put her away ? ' He
saith unto them, " Moses because of the hardness
of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives :
but from the beginning it was not so. And I
say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife,
except it be for fornication, and shall marry
another, committeth adultery : and whoso marrieth
her which is put away doth commit adultery."
His disciples say unto him, ' If the case of the man
be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.' But
he said unto them. "All men cannot receive this
saying, save they to whom it is given. For
there are some eunuchs, which were so born from
their mother's womb : and there are some eunuchs,
which were made eunuchs of men : and there be

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eunuchs, which have made themselves e> nuchs for
the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to
receive it, let him receive it."

Mark 10: And th*Y brought young children
13-27. to him, that he should touch them : and
his disciples rebuked those that brought them.
But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased,
deceive with and said unto them, " Suffer the little
meekness. children to come unto me, and forbid
them not : for of such is the kingdom of
God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not
receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he
shall not enter therein. " And he took them up in
his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed
them. And when he was gone forth into the way,
there came one running, and kneeled to him, and
asked him, ' Good Master, what shall I do that
I may inherit eternal life? ' And Jesus said unto
him, " Why callest thou me good ? There is nont
good but one, that is, God. Thou knowest th
commandments, k

Through the Do not commit adultery,
law the Do not kill,

knowledge Dq nQt ^^

Ro7ft.3:20. Do not bear false witness,
Defraud not,
Honor thy father and mother,"

And he answered and said unto him, ' Master, all
these have I observed from my youth,' Then
Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him,
" One thing thou lackest : go thy way, sell what-
soever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, take up
the cross, and follow me." And he was sad at that
saying and went away grieved : for he had great
possessions. And Jesus looked round about, and

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saith unto his disciples, " How hardly shall they
that have riches enter into the kingdom of God ! "
And the disciples were astonished at his words.
But Jesus answereth them again, and saith unto
them. " Children, how hard is it for them that trust
in riches to enter into the kingdom of God ! It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God." And tbey were astonished out of measure
saying among themselves, ' Who then can be
saved ? ' A nd Jesus looking upon them saith,
u With men it is impossible, but not with God : for
with God all things are possible. " Then answered
Peter and said unto him, " Behold, we have for-
saken all, and followed thee ; what shall we have
therefore ? ' And Jesus said unto them, " Verily I
say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in
the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in
the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And
every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or The free gift
children, or lands, for my name's sake, °* God.
shall receive an hundredfold, and shall om% ' 3*
inherit everlasting life. But many that are first
shall be last; and the last shall be first."

" For the kingdom of heaven is like unto
a man that is an householder, which went out
early in the morning to hire labourers into his vine-
yard. And when he had agreed with the labourers
for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
And he went out about the third hour, and saw
others standing idle in the market-place, and said
unto them ; Go ye also into the vineyard, and what-
soever is right I will give you. And Last of all.
they went their way. Again he went ic<w. 15:9.
out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did like*

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wise. And about the eleventh hour he went out,

and found others standing idle, and saith unto

them, "Why stand ye here all the day idle? They

say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He

saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and

whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when

even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto

his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their

hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And

when they came that were hired about the eleventh

hour, they received every man a penny. But when

the first came they supposed that they should have

received more; and they likewise received every

man a penny. And when they had received it,

they murmured against the goodman of the house,

saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and

thou hast made them equal unto us, which have

borne the burden and heat of the day. But he

answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee

no wrong : didst not thou agree with me for a

penny ? Take that thine is, and go thy way : I

will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it

Qot lawful for me to do wrhat I will with mine own ?

Is thine eye evil, because I am good ? So the last

shall be first, and the first last."

And they were in the way going up to
^32-3*1° : Jerusalem; and Jesus went before

them : and they were amazed ; and as
bhey followed they were afraid. And he took again
the twelve, and began to tell them what things
should happen unto him. Saying, " Behold, we go

up to Jerusalem ; and the Son of man
Sodom and shall be delivered unto the chief priests,
Bev. ill 8. and unto the scribes ; and they shall

condemn him to death, and shall
deliver him to the Gentiles : And they shall mock
him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon

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him, and shall kill him : and the third day he shal]
rise again. " And they understood none Luke 18.34#
of these things : and this saying was
hid from them, neither knew they the things which
were spoken.

And James and John, the sons of Markio:
Zebedee, came unto him, saying, 35"45,
1 We would that thou shouldest do for us whatso-
ever we shall desire.' And he said unto him,
" What would ye that I should do for you ? They
said unto him, ' Grant unto us that we may sit, one
on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in
thy glory/ But Jesus said unto them, " Ye know
not what ye ask : can ye drink of the cup that I
drink of ? and be baptized with the baptism that I
am baptized with?" And they said unto him,
' We can.' And Jesus said unto them, " Ye shall
indeed drink of the cup that I drink of ; and with
the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be
baptized : But to sit on my right hand and on my
left hand is not mine to give ; but it shall be given
to them for whom it is prepared." And when the
ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with
James and John. But Jesus called them to him,
and saith unto them, " Ye know that they which
are accounted to rale over the Gentiles exercise
lordship over them : and their great ones exercise
authority upon them. But so shall it not be among
you: but whosoever will be great among you shall
be your minister : And whosoever of you will be
the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the
Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

And Jesus entered and passed through T , in . iA
Jericno. And, behold, there was a man Rahab the
named Zacchaeus, which was the chief Harlot.
among the publicans, and he was rich. Josh 6:17f

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And he sought to see Jesus who he was ; and could
not for the press, because he was little of stature.
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore
fcree to see him : for he was to pass that way. And
when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and
saw him, and said unto him, " Zacchseus, make
haste and come down ; for to-day I must abide at
thy house." And he made haste, and came down,
and received him joyfully. And when they saw it,
they all murmured, saying, * That he was gone to
be guest with a man that is a sinner.' And Zac-
chseus stood, and said unto the Lord ; * Behold,
Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and
if I have taken any thing from any man by false
accusation, I restore him fourfold/ And Jesus
said unto him, " This day is salvation come to this
house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
For the son of man has come to seek and to save
that which was lost."
Mark 10: And they came to Jericho : and as he

46-52. went out of Jericho with his disciples
and a great number of people, blind Bartimseus,
the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out, and say, * Jesus, thou son of
David have mercy on me,' And many charged him
that he should hold his peace: but he cried the
more a great deal, ' Thou son of David, have mercy
on me.' And Jesus stood still, and commanded
him to be called. And they call the blind man,
saying unto him, * Be of good comfort, rise ; he
calleth thee.' And he, casting away his garment,
rose, and came to Jesus. And Jesus answered and
said unto him, " What wilt thou that I should do
unto thee." The blind man said unto him,
' Lord, that I might receive my sight.' And
Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy faith

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hath made thee whole." And immediately
he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
And as they heard these things, he
added and spake a parable, because he L"i_e28?:
was nigh to Jerusalem, and because
they thought that the kingdom of God should
immediately appear. He said therefore, "A certain
nobleman went into a far country to receive for
himself a kingdom, and to return. And he called
his ten servants, and delivered them%ten pounds,
and said unto them, Occupy till I come. But his
citizens hated him, and sent a message
after him, saying, We will not have this Jesus from
man to reign over us. And it came to J?e^en*0 „
pass, that when he was returned, having
received the kingdom, then he commanded these
servants to be called unto him, to whom he had
given the money, that he might know how much
every man had gained by trading. Then came the
first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten
pounds. And he said unto him, Well, thou good
servant : because thou hast been faithful in a very
little, have thou authority over ten cities.
And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound
hath gained five pounds. And he said likewise to
him, Be thou also over five cities. And another
came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound,
which I have kept laid up in a napkin : For 1
feared thee, because thou art an austere man : thou
takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest
that thou didst not sow. And he saith unto him,
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou
wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an
austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and
reaping that I did not sow : Wherefore then
gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at
my coming 1 mighG have required mine own with

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usury? And he said unto them that stood by,
Take from him the pound, and give it to him that
hath ten pounds. (And they said unto him, Lord,
he hath ten pounds.) For I say unto you, That
unto every one which hath shall be given ; and
from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be
taken away from him. But those mine enemies
which would not that I should reign over them,
bring hither, and slay them before me."

And when he had thus spoken, he went
before, ascending up to Jerusalem. And the
Jews* passover was nigh at hand : and

many went out of the country up to
aiSui1 'i\u Jerusa^em before the passover, to purify

themselves. Then sought they for
Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they
stood in the temple, ' What think ye, that he will
not come to the feast ? ' Now both the chief priests
and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that,
if any man knew where he were, he should shew it,
that they might take him. Then Jesus six days
before the passover came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised

from the dead. There they made him a

Bethlehem1/ suPPer I anc* Martha served: but
2 Sam 23 : 15. Lazarus was one of them that sat at
the table with them. Then took Mary
a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet
with her hair : and the house was filled with the
odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his
disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should
betray him, l Why was not this ointment sold for
three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? ■ This
he said, not that he cared for the poor ; but because
he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what
was put therein. Then said Jesus, " Let her

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alone : against tbe day of my burying hath sha
kept this. For the poor always ye have with you ;
but me ye have not always."

Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he
was there : and they came not for Jesus' sake only,
but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had
raised from the dead. But the chief priests con-
sulted that they might put Lazarus also to death ;
Because that by reason of hiin many of the Jews
wen* away, and believed on Jesus.

CHAPTER IX

She Xast Wleefc

HND when they came nigh to Jem
salem, unto Bethphage and Beth-
any, at the Mount of Olives, he
sendeth forth two of his disciples.
And saith unto them, " Go your way into
the village over against you : and as soon
as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a
colt tied, whereon never man sat ; loose
him, and bring him- And if any man say unto
you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath
need of him ; and straightway he will send him
hither." And they went their way and found the
colt tied by the door without in a place where two
ways met; and they loose him. And certain of
them that stood there said unto them, 'What do ye,
loosing the colt?' And they said unto them even
as Jesus had commanded : and they let them go.

And they brought the colt to Jesus, and
flin°sRi:33. cas^ their garments on him; and ho sat

upon him. And many spread their gar-
ments in the way: and others cut down branches
of the trees, and strawed them in the way. And they
that went before, and they that followed, cried,
saying, ' Hosanna ; Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord : Blessed be the kingdom of
our father David, that cometh in the name of the
Lord; Hosanna in the highest.' And some of

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the Pharisees from among the multitude Luke 19
said unto him, ' Master, rebuke thy dis- 39'44,
ciples.' And he answered and said unto them, " 1
tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the
stones would immediately cry out." And when he
was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over
it, saying, " If thou hadst known, even thou, at
least in this thy day, the things which belong unto
thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
For the days shall come upon thee, that
thine enemies shall cast a trench about ctt^feii*116
thee, and compass thee round, and keep Rev. 11 .13
thee in on every side, And shall lay thee
even with the ground, and thy children within
thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone
upon another; because thou knewest not the time
of thy visitation.

All this was done, that it might be Matt. 21 :
fulfilled which was spoken by the pro- *an<*s
phet, saying,

Tell ye the daughter of Sion.

Behold, thy King, cometh unto thee,

Meek, and sitting upon an ass,

And a colt the foal of an ass.
These things understood not his dis- John 12 :
ciples at the first: but when Jesus was 16"19,
glorified, then remembered they that these things
were written of him, and that they had done these
things unto* him. The people therefore that was
with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave,
and raised him from the dead, bare record. For
this cause the people also met him, for that they
heard that he had done this miracle. The Phari-
sees therefore said among themselves, ' Perceive
ye howT ye prevail nothing? behold the world is
gone after him/ And Jesus entered into Mark u :
Jerusalem, and into the temple: and 11_33,

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when lie had looked round about upon all things,
and now the eventide was come, he went out unto
Bethany with the twelve- And on the morrow,
when they were come from Bethany, he was
hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having
leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything
thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing
but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet. And
Jesus answered and said unto it, u No man eat
fruit of thee hereafter for ever." And his ais-
ciples heard it,

And they come to Jerusalem: and
thehouse Jesus went into the temple, and began to

fc£on29% cask ou* ^em *^a* so^ ancl boughs
in the temple, and overthrew the tables

of the moneychangers, and the scats of them that

sold doves; and would not suffer that any man

should carry any vessel through th3 temple. And

be taught, saying unto them, " Is it not written,

My house shall be called of all nations

The house of prayer?

But ye have made it

A den of thieves."
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and
sc ught how they might destroy him: for they
ftared him, because all the people was astonished
at his doctiine. And when even was come, he
went out of the city.

And in the morning, as they passed
that?tked by> they saw tn© fig tree dried up
£hPu!^ .. from the roots. And Peter calling to re-
iscdJji 5* 2." membrance saith unto him, 'Master,
behold, the fig tree which thou curse dst
is withered away/ And Jesus answering saith
unto them, " Have faith in God. For verily I say
unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this
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the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall
believe that those things which he saith shall
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,
and ye shall have them. And when ye stand pray-
ing, forgive, if ye have ought against any : that
your Father also which is in heaven may forgive
you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, nei-
ther will your Father which is in heaven forgive
your trespasses.

And they come again to Jerusalem : and as he
was walking in the temple, there come o Thou
to him the chief priests, and the scribes, fl||r|hge°e'
and the elders, and say unto him, ' By away.
what authority doest thou these things V Amos' 7 :12,
and who gave thee this authority to do> these
things V And Jesus answered and said unto them,
" I will also ask of you one question, and .answer
me, and I will tell you by what authority I do
these things. The baptism of John, was it from
heaven, or of men? answer me/' And they rea-
soned with themselves, saying, Tf we shall say, From
heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe
him V But if we shall say, ' Of men/ they feared
the people : for all men counted John, that he was
a prophet indeed. And they answered and said
unto Jesus, ' We cannot tell-' And Jesus answer-
ing saith unto them, " Neither do I tell you by
what authority I do these things. But what think
ye ? A certain man had two sons ; and Matt. 21: j
he came to the first, and said, Son, go 28'46,
work to day in my vineyard. He answered and
said, I will not : but afterwards he re- Barnabas
pented, and went. And he came to the took Mark,
second, and said likewise. And he
answered and said, I go, sir : and went not.
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They say unto him, ' T1 c first.' Jesus saith unW
them, " Verily I say unto you, That the publicans
and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before
you. For John cam© unto you in the way of right-
eousness, and y© believed him not: but the pub-
licans and the harlots believed him : and ye, when
y© had seen it, repented not afterwards, that ye
might believe him."

Hear another parable : " There was a certain
householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged
it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and
built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and
went into a far country: and when the time of
the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the
By their fall husbandmen, that they might receive the
salvation fruits of it. And the husbandmen took
Bentiies6. his servants, and beat one, and killed
Romans 11:11. another, and stoned another. Again he
sent other servants more than the first- and they
did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent
unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my
son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they
said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let
us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance-
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vine-
yard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of
the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those
husbandmen ? They say unto him, He will miser-
ably destroy those wicked men, and will let out
his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall
render him the fruits in their seasons.

Jesus saith unto them, " Did ye never read in
the scriptures,

The stone which the builders rejected,
The same is become the head of the corner.
This is the Lord's doing,
And it is marvellous in our eyes?

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'Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God
shall be taken from you, and given to a nation
bringing forth the fruits thereof. And whosoever
shall fall on this stone shall be broken : _A . „

It Sn3.ll

but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will break in

grind him to powder." And when the J^f'2 . u

chief priests and Pharisees had heard

his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

But when they sought to lay hands on him, they

feared the multitude, because they took him for a

prophet.

And Jesus answered and spake unto
them again by parables, and said Matt. 22:
" The kingdom of heaven is like unto a 1"li*
certain king which made a marriage for his son,
and sent forth his servants to call them that were
bidden to the wedding : and they would not come.
Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell

them which are bidden, Behold, I have „ _

-. . ' , Neglect so

prepared my dinner: my oxen and my great

fatlings are killed, and all things are ^}™l*™'3
ready: come unto the marriage. But
they made light of it, and went their ways, one to
hia farm, another to his merchandise: And the
remnant took his servants, and entreated them
spitefully, and slew them. But when the king
heard thereof, he was wroth : and he sent forth
his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and
burned up their city. Then saith he to his ser-
vants, The wedding is ready, but they which were
bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the
highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the
marriage. So those servants went out into the
highways, and gathered together all as many as
they found, both bad and good : and the wedding
was furnished with guests. And when the king
came in to- see the guests, he saw there a man which
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M him, Friend, bow earnest thou in hither

iictsofthe not having a wedding garment? And he
toni9*:8. was speechless. Then said the King to
the servants, Bind him hand and foot
and take him away, and cast him into outer dark-
ness*; there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen."
Mark 12: And they send unto him certain of the
13-37. Pharisees and of the lierodians, to catch
him in his words. And when they were come,
they say unto him, ' Master, we know that thou
art true, and carest for no man : for thou regardest
not the person of men, but teaehest the way of
God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to
Finder to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall
an their we not give?' But he, knowing their
^ues* hypocrisy, said unto them, " Why tempt

ye me ? bring me a penny, that I may see
it." And they brought it. And he saith unto them,
' Whose is this image and superscription?" And
they said unto him, 4 Caesar's/ And Jesus answer-
ing said unto them, " Render to Caesar the things
that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are
God's." And they marvelled at him.
Ghrist Then come unto him the Sadducees,

brought which say there is no resurrection;
to'nghtf11*7 and they asked him, saying, < Master,
2 rim i:io. Moses wrote unto us, If a man's
brother die, and leave his wife behind him,
and leave no children, that his brother
should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his
brother. Now there were seven brethren: and
the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. And
the second took her and died, neither left he any
seed: and the third likewise. And the seven had
her, and left no seed : last of all the woman died
also. In the resurrection therefore, when they
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seven had her to wife. And Jesus answering said
unto them, " Do ye not therefore err, because ye
know not the scriptures, neither the power of God ?
For when they shall rise from the dead, they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but
are as the> angels which are in heaven. And as
touching the dead, that they rise : have ye not
read in the book o>f Moses, how in the bush God
spake unto him, saying,

I am the God of Abraham,
And the God of Isaac,
And the God of Jacob ?

He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the
living: ye therefore do greatly err. And one of
the scribes came, and having heard them reason-
ing together, and perceiving that he had answered
them well, asked him, ' Which is the first com-
mandment of all?' And Jesus answered him;
" The first of all the commandments is,

Hear, O Israel ;

The Lord our God is one Lord :

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God

With all thy heart,

And with all thy soul,

And with all thy mind,

And with all thy strength :

this is the first commandment. And the second is
like, namely this,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

There is none other commandment greater than
these." And the scribe said unto him, x SQe a
1 Well, Master, thou hast said the truth : different
for there is one God, and there is none member-,
other but he: And to love him with all Bam .7: 23.
the heart-, and with all the understanding, and
with all the soul, and with all tb*
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self, is more than all the whole burnt offerings
and sacrifices. ' And when Jesus saw that he
answered discreetly, he said unto him, " Thou art
not far from the kingdom of God." And no man
after that durst ask him any question. And Jesus
^answered and said, while he taught in the temple.
" How say the scribes that Christ is the son of
David ? for David himself said by the Holy Gho®^

The Lord said to my Lord,

Sit thou on my right hand,

Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

David therefore himself calleth him

By the re- Lord ; and whence is he then his son ?"

s?5ueSitio5 And the common people heard him
of the dead i n r £

nom i . 3-4 gladly.

Matt. 23: Then spake Jesus to the multi-

tude, and to his disciples, saying,
" The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses;
T h st sea'k : ^^ therefore whatsoever they bid
rhou not you observe,, that observe and do ; but
Kom^\\. d° n°k Ye after their works: for they
say, and do not. For they bind heavy
burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on
men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move
them with one of their fingers. But all their works
they do for to be seen of men : they make broad
their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of theii
garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts,
and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greet-
ings in the market, and to be called of men, Rabbi,
Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is
your Master, even Christ ; and all ye are brethren.
And call no man your father upon the earth : f oi
one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neithei
be ye called masters: for one is your Master, ever
Christ. Wut he that is greatest among you shall
be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt him-

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self shall be abased ; and he that shall humble
himself shall be exalted.

" But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo-
crites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men : for ye neither go in yourselves, neither
suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo-
crites ! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a
pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall re-
ceive the greater damnation.

11 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo-
crites ! for ye compass sea and land to make**one
proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-
fold more the child of hell than yourselves.

' 'Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which Guide of
say, Whosoever shall swear by the the blind.

, J i -, • , i • -i . i J Eom.2 ;19.

temple, it is nothing; but whosoever
shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a
debtor ! Ye fools and blind : for whether is
greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctineth
the gold ? And, whosoever shall swear by the
altar, it i9 nothing; but whosoever sweareth by
the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. Ye fools and
blind : for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar
that sanctineth the gift? Whoso therefore shall
swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all
things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the
temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth
therein. And he that shall swear by heaven,
sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that
sitteth thereon. Woe unto you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise
and cummin, and have omitted the weightier mat-
ters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others
undone Ye blind guides, which strain at a
gnat, and swallow a camel.

u Woe]into you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo

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crites! for ye make clean) the outside of the cup
and of the "clatter, but within they are full of
extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within the cup and plat-
ter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which in-
deed appear beautiful outward, but are within full
of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even
so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
They cast " TSoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
ihe\iun- hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs
geon. ^ of the prophets, and garnish the sepul-
chres of the righteous, and say,
If we had been in the days of our
fathers, we would not have been par-
takers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that
ye are the children of them which killed the pro-
phets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell ? Wherefore, behold,
I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ;
and some of them shall ye scourge in your syna-
gogues, and persecute them from city to city : That
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed
upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel
unto the blood of Zacharias son of Baraehias, whom
ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily
I say unto you, All these things shall come upon
this generation.

"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that
The glory killest the prophets and stonest them
we^toth which are sent unto thee, how often
Ezek. 10 : io would I have gathered thy children to-
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chickens under her wings, and ye would not ! Be-
hold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I
say uuto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till
ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name
of the Lord. And Jesus sat over against the
treasury, and beheld how the people cast Mark 12
money into the treasury : and many that 11"4*-
were rich cast in much. And there came a certain
poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which
make a farthing. And he called unto
him his disciples, and saith unto them, ashman16
" Verily I say unto you, That this poor hath,
widow hath cast more in, than all they l Cor' 8 : 1S
which have cast into the treasury. For all they
did cast in of their abundance; but she of her
want did cast in all that she had, even all her
living. And there were certain Greeks
among them that came up to worship at J2o?so2:
the feast: The same came therefore to
Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Gali- JhiiicSme
lee, and desired him, saying, ' Sir, we *° thv uSht«
wTould see Jesus/ Philip cometh and
telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell
Jesus.

And Jesus answered them, saying, " The hour
is come that the Son of man should be glorified.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth
alone : but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that
hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life
eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me ;
and where I am, there shall also* my servant be:
if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Now is my soul troubled ; and what shall I say ?
Father, save me from this hour : but for this cause
came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name."
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying,

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" I have both glorified it,

And will glorify it again."
The people therefore, that stood by, and heaSH?
it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel
spake to him. Jesus answered and said, " This
voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
Now is the judgment of this world : now shall the
prince of this world be cast out. And
whole16 X ilf I be lifted up from the earth, will
Wjr/ldV 2 draw all men unto me." This he said,
signifying what death he should die.
The people answered him, ' We have heard out of
the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how
say est thou, The Son of man must be lifted up ?
who is this Son of man!' Then Jesus said unto
them, " Yet a little while is the light with you.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness, come
upon you: for he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light,
believe in the light, that ye may be the children
of light." These things spake Jesus, and departed,
and did hide himself from them.

But though he had done so many miracles be-
fore them, yet they believed not on him : That the
saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spake,

Lord, who hath believed our report?

And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been
revealed ?

Therefore they could not believe, because that
Esaias said again,

He hath blinded their eyes,

And hardened their heart,

That they should not see with their eyes,

Nor understand with their hearty

And be converted,

And I should heal theni

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These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory,
and spake of him.

Nevertheless among the chief rulers also^many
believed on him ; but because of the Pharisees
they did not confess him, lest they should be put
out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of
men more than the praise of God. Jesus cried
and said, " He that believeth on me, believeth not
on me, but on him that sent me. And he that
seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a
light into the world, that whosoever believeth on
me should not abide in darkness. And if any man
hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not:
for I came not to- judge the world, but to save the
world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not
my words, hath one that judgeth him:
the word that I have spoken, the same I will
shall judge him in the last day. For I ofhim! "
have not spoken of myself; but the Deut.is-.i9.
Father which sent me, he gave me a
commandment, what I should say, and what I
should speak. And I know that his command-
ment is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak there-
fore even as the Father said unto me, so I speak."

And as he went out of the temple, one Mark 13:
of his disciples saith unto him, ' Master, 1-12.
see what manner of stones and what buildings are
here V And Jesus answering said unto
him, " Seest thou these great buildings ? ^e^use*
there shall not be left one stone upon of the
another, that shall not be thrown down." isa. 52:13.
And as he sat upon the mount of
Olives over against the temple, Peter and James
and John and Andrew asked him privately, " Tell
us, when shall these things be? and what shall be
the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled V:
And Jesus answering them began to say, " Take
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come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars
and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for
such things must needs be ; but the end shall not
be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom : and there shall be
earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be
famines and troubles: these' are the beginnings of
sorrows.

" But take heed to yourselves : for they shall
deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues
ye shall be beaten : and ye shall be brought before
rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony
against them. And the gospel must first be pub-
lished among all nations. But when they shall
lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought
beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye
premeditate : but whatsoever shall be given you
in that hour, that speak ye : for it is not ye that
speak, but the Holy Ghost. Now the brother
shall betray the brother to death, and the father
the son : and children shall rise up against their
parents, and shall cause them to be/ put to death.

And many false prophets shall rise,
Mii-if4: an(^ sna^ deceive many. And because

iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall wax cold. But he that shall
endure unto the end, the same shall be
saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be
preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations; and then shall the end come. And ye
Luke 21: shall be hated of all men for my name's
17-20. sake. But there shall not an hair of your
head perish. In your patience possess ye your souls
Forts " ^nd when ye shall see Jerusalem

against it compassed with armies, then know that
about tne desolation thereof is nigh."

jer. 52#;4. " When ye shall see the abomination

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of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
standing where it ought not, (let him Mark 13 :
that readeth understand), then let them r^jah
that be in Judsea flee to the mountains: went forth
and let him that is on the housetop not Jerusalem,
go down into the house, neither enter Jer. 37 : 12.
therein, to take any thing out of his house : and
let him that is in the field not turn back again for
to take up his garment. But woe to them that
are with child, and to them that give suck in those
days ! And pray ye that your flight be not in the
winter. For in those days shall be affliction, such
as was not from the beginning of the creation
which God created unto this time, neither shall
be, for there shall be great distress in the Luke 21 :
land, and wrath upon this people. And 23'24,
they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall
be led away captive into all nations; and Jeru-
salem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until
the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

"And except that the Lord had short- Mark 13:
ened those days, no flesh should be 20"23«
saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath
chosen, he hath shortened the days. And then if
any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or,
lo, he is there; believe him not: For false Christs
and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs
and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even
the elect. But take ye heed : behold, I have fore-
told you all things. Wherefore if they Matt. 24:
shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the 26~28'
desert ; go not forth : behold, he is in the secret
chambers; believe it not. For as the Theudas.
lightning cometh out of the east, and Acts 5 : 3S-
shineth even unto the west; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever
the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together."

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Mark 13: " But in those days, after that tribu-

24"27- lation, the sun shall be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of
heaven shall fall, and the powers that
Everlasting are m heaven shall be shaken. And
Dominion, then shall they see the Son of man
coming in the clouds with great power
and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and
shall gather together his elect from the four winds,
from the uttermost part of the earth to the utter-
most part of heaven. And when these things begin
to come- to pass, then look up, and lift
Luke 21 : 28. up your heads ; for your redemption

draweth nigh/'
Mark 13: " Now learn a parable of the fig tree;

8-31. When her branch is yet tender, and

putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near :
So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things
come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the
doors Verily I say unto* you, that this genera-
tion shall not pass, till all these things be done.
Heaven and earth shall pass away : but my words
shall not pass away.
Matt. 24 " But of that day and hour knoweth

36-11 no> man, no, not the angels of heaven, but
my Father only. But as the days of Noe were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For
as in the days that were before the flood they
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into
the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and
took them all away; so shall also the coming of
the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field ;
the one shall be taken and the other left. Two
women shall be grinding at the mill; the one
shall be taken and the other left. And take heed
Luke. 21 : to yourselves, lest at any time your
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and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that
day come upon you unawares. For as a snare
shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of
the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray
always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape
all these things that shall come to pass, and to
stand before trie Son of man."

' Take ye heed, watch and pray : Mark 12
for ye know not when the time is. For 33"37-
the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey,
who left his house, and gave authority to his ser-
vants, and to every man his work, and commanded
the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye
know not when the master of the house cometh,
at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or
in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you
sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto
all, Watch."

' Watch therefore: for ye know not Matt. 2*:
what hour your Lord doth come. But *2-51*
know this, that if the goodman of the house had
known in what watch the thief would come, he
would have watched, and would not have suffered
his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also
ready: for in such an hour as ye think not th$
Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and
wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over
his household, to give them meat in due season ?
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he
cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto
you, That he shall make him ruler over all his
goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in
his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And
shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat
and drink with the drunken; The lord of that ser-
vant shall come in a day when he looketh not for
him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and
shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion

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with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and
gnashing of teeth."

Mat. 23: "Then shall the kingdom of

!-i3. heaven be likened unto ten vir-

gins, which took their lamps, and went
forth to meet the bridegroom. And five
of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps,
and took no oil with them : But the wise
took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered
and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made,
Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet
him. Then all those virgins arose, and
Be found trimmed their lamps. And the foolish
2 *2ter3:*i4. said unto the wise, Give us of your oil;
for our lamps are gone out. But the
wise answered, saying, Not so<; lest there be not
enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them
that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they
went to buy, the bridegroom came ; and they that
were ready went in with him to the marriage : and
the door was shut. Afterward came also the
other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But
he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I
know you not. Watch therefore, for you know
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of
man cometh."

Matt. 25: " For the kingdom of heaven is as a

14-so. man travelling into a far country,
who called his own servants, and delivered unto
them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents,
to another two, and to another one ; to every man
according to his several ability; and straightway
took his journey. Then he that had received the
five talent9 went and traded with the same, and
made them other five talents. And likewise he
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But he that had received one went and digged in
the earth, and hid his lord's money. After a long
time the lord of those servants cometh, and reo
koneth with them. And so he that had received
five talents came and brought other five talents,
saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me
five talents : behold I have gained be- to his own
side them five talents more. His lord }aJ?0U*;\Q
said unto him, Well done, thou good and
faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a
few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things : enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Ha
also that had received two talents came and said,
Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents : be-
hold, I have gained two other talents beside_them.
His lord said unto him, Well done good, and
faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a
few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things : enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Then
he which had received the one talent came and
said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard
man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and
gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was
afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth :
lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord
answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and
slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where
I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed :
Thou ought est therefore to have put my money to
the exchangers, and then at my coming I should
have received mine own with usury. Take there-
fore the talent from him, and give it unto him
which hath ten talents. For unto every one that
hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance:
but from him that hath not shall be taken away
even that which he hath. And cast ye the un-
profitable servant into outer darkness : there shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

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Matt 25: " When the Son of man shall come
in his glory, and all the holy angels
with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his
glory: And before him shall be gathered all
nations: and he shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the
goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the
King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
pared for you from the foundation of the world :
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I
was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a
stranger, and ye took me in : Naked and ye
clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was
in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the
righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger,
and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or
when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came
unto thee? And the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye
have done it unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall
he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart
from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared
for the devil and his angels : for I was an hungred,
and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye
gave me no drink : I was a stranger, and ye took
me not in : naked, and ye clothed me not : sick,
and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall
they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we
thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked,
or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto
thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily
I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of
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nhall go away into everlasting punishment: but
the righteous into life eternal. "

Now the feast of unleavened bread Luke 22:
drew nigh, which is called the Passover. 1-6-
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they
might kill him ; for they feared the people.

Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed
Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And
he went hi9 way, and communed with the chief
priests and captains, hew he might betray him
unto them. And they were glad, and covenanted
to give him money. And he promised, and sought
opportunity to betray him unto them in the
absence of the multitude.

Then carne the day of unleavened
bread, when the passover must be killed. Luko 22: 7
And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go find the
"Go and prepare us the passover, that *TSam lb -21
we may eat." And they said unto him,
1 Where wilt thou that we prepare?' And he said
unto them, " Behold, when ye are entered into' the
city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher
of water; follow him into the house where he
entereth in. And ye shall say unto the goodman
of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where
is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat the pass-
over with my disciples? And he shall shew you a
large upper room furnished: there make ready. "
And they went, and found as he had said unto
them : and they made ready the passover.

And when the hour was come, he sat down, and
the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto
them, " With desire I have desired to
eat this passover with you before I things be
suffer : for I say unto you, I will not any **™y£^
more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in Matt 5 : 18.
the kingdom of God. And he took the £ better
cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take Heb, 8: 6.'

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Itlg this, and divide it among yourselves:

finished. for I say unto you, I will not drink of

John 19 :30 y^ fmit Q|f the yin^ ^yj ^ kingdom

of God shall come."
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and

brake it, and gave unto them, saying, " This is
my body which is given for you : this do in remem-
brance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper,
saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood,
which is shed for you. But, behold, the hand of
him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was deter-
mined: but woe unto that man by whom he is
betrayed ! And they began to enquire among
themselves, which of them it was that should do
this thing. And there was also a strife among
them, which of them should be accounted the
greatest. And he sajd unto them, " The
kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them ;
and they that exercise authority upon them are
called benefactors;. But ye shall not be so : but he
that is greatest among you, let him be as the
younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth
serve. For whether is greater, he that
God's sitteth at meat, or he that serveth'? is

workers. n°k nei that sitteth at meat? but I am
1 Cor. 3 : 9. among you as he that serveth. Ye are
they which have continued with mo in
my temptations. And I appoint unto you a king-
dom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; thaw
ye may eat. and drink at my tahle in my kingdom,
and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of
Israel."
John 13 : When Jesus knew that his hour was
1-12. ' come that he should depart out of this
world unto the Father, having loved his own which
were in the world, he loved them urjfeo the end.
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put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
to betray him ; Jesus knowing that the Father had
given all things into his hands, and that he was
come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from
supper, and laid aside his garments;; and took a
towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth
water into a basin, and began to wash the
disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel
wherewith he was girded. Then cometh he to
Simon Peter : and Peter saith unto him, ' Lord,
dost thou wash my feet?' Jesus answered and
said unto him, " What I do thou knowest not now ;
but thou shalt know hereafter. " Peter saith unto
him, l Thou shalt never wash my feet.' Jesus
answered him, " If I wash thee not, thou hast no
part with me." Simon. Peter saith unto him,
' Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and
my head/ Jesus saith to him, " He that is
washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is
clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all."
For he knew who should betray him; therefore
said he, " Ye are not all clean."

So after he had washed their feet,
and had taken his garments, and was set i2?20. '
down again, he said unto them, " Know Gather d
ye what I have done to you? Ye call bundle of
me Master and Lord : and ye say well ; st^#28 : 3.
for so I am. If I then, your Lord and
Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to
wash o-ne another's feet. For I have given you
an example, that ye should do as I have done to
you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant
is not greater than his lord; neither he that is
sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know
these things, happy are ye if ye do them. I speak
not of you all : I know whom I have chosen : but
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He that eateth bread with me
Hath lifted up his heel against me.
Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is
come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that receive th whom-
soever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth
me receiveth him that sent me."
John 13: When Jesus had thus said, he was
troubled in spirit, and testified, and
said, " Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of
you shall betray me," Then the disciples looked
one on another, doubting of whom he spake. Now
there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter there-
fore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it
should be of whom he spake. He then lying on
Jesus' breast saith unto him, 'Lord, who is it?'
Jesus answered, " He it is, to whom I shall give a
sop, when I have dipped it." And when he had
dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the
son of Simon. And after the sop Satan
Rn evil entered into him. Then said Jesus

BUI Flli

i Sam' is: unto him, a That thou doest, do
lo and 19: 5. quickiy.» n0,w no, mRn at the table

knew for what intent he spake this unto
him. Foot some of them thought, because Judas
had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy
those things that we have need of against the
feast; or, that he should give something to the
poor. He them having received the sop went
immediately out: and it was night. Therefore,
John is : when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is
81'38' the Son of man glorified, and God is
glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God
shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straight-
way glorify him. Little children, yet a little
while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as
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come; so now I say to yon. A new command-
ment I give unto you, That ye love one
another; as I have loved you, that ye belinniJjg
also love one another. By this shall all 2 John J.
men know that ye are my disciples, if ye
have love one to another." Simon Peter said untc
him, ' Lord, whither goest thou?' Jesus answered
him, " Whither I go, thou canst nof follow me
now ; but thou shalt follow me afterwards/' Petei
said unto him, l Lord, why cannot I follow thee
now ? I will lay down my life for thy sake.'
Jesus answered him, " Wilt thou lay down thy life
for my sake ? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The
cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me
thrice."

And he said unto them, " When I Luke 22

35-38

sent you without purse, and scrip, and
shoes, lacked ye any thing?" And they said,
* Nothing.' Then said he unto them, " But now,
he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise
his scrip : and he that hath no sword, let him
sell his garment, and buy one. For I say unto
you, that this that is written must yet be accom-
plished in me. And he was reckoned among
the transgressors: for the things concerning me
have an end." And they said, ' Lord, behold,
here are two swords.' And he said unto them,
" It is enough."

" Let not your heart be troubled : John 1* :
ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Fatner's house are many mansions: if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to pre-
pare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you
unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be
also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye
know."

Thomas saith unto him. ' Lord, we know

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not whither thou goest; and how
th^fi^t0 can we know the way?' Jesus saith
tabernacle unto him, " I am the way, the truth,

Heb.%'i 8. a,nc^ ^he ^& : no man cometh unto the
Father, but by me. If ye had known
me, ye should have known my Father also: and
from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.'5
Philip saith unto him, i Lord, shew us the Father,
and it sufficeth us.' Jesus saith unto him, " Have
I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou
not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath
seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew
us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me? the words that
I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the
Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Believe m© that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me: or else believe me for the very
works' sake. Verily, verily, I say untoi you, He
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he
do also; and greater works than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father. And
Bouffrom whatsoever ye shall ask in my name,

lam^V 20 tllnat W^ * ^0l' ^at kke- Father may be
glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it."
John 14: "If ye love me, keep my command-

15-36. ments. And I will pray the Father,

and he shall give you another Comforter, that he
may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of
truth ; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him : but ye know
him ; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
I will not leave* you comfortless: I will come to
Ilivein yQtL ^et a little while, and the world
faith. seeth me no more; but ye see me:

Gai 2120. because j live? ye shall live alsa At

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Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that
hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he
it is that lovetli me : and he that loveth me shall
be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and
will manifest myself to him." Judas saith unto
him, not Iscariot, ' Lord, how is it that
thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and witnesses
not unto the world?' Jesus answered chosen
and said unto him, " If a man love me, God.re y
he will keep my words: and my Father Acts 10: 4L
will love him, and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him. He that
loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the
word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's
which sent me. These things have I spoken unto
you, being yet present with you. But the Com-
forter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all
things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave
with you, my peace- I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your
heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye
have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and
come again unto you. If ye loved me,
ye would rejoice, because I said, I go He
unto the Father: for my Father is nTmseif.
greater than I. And now I have told you Phil. 2: 7
before it come to pass., that, when it is
come to pass, ye might believe. Hereafter I will
not talk much with you: for the prince of this
world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that
the world may know that I love the Father; and
as the Father gave me commandment, even so I
do. Arise, let us go hence."

" I am the true yine, and my
Father is the husbandman. Every John 13.
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ofYEir °tUt ta-^e^ awa7: and every branch that
Psa, so "a beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may
bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through
the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide
in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine ; no more
can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye
are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I
in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: foi
without me ye can do nothing. If a

deathdand man a°ide n°t in m&> he 1SI cast forth as
resurrec- a branch, and is withered ; and men
^Bom. 6 : 5 gather them, and cast them into the
fire, and they are burned. If ye abide
in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much
fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father
hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye
in my love.

" If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide
in my love ; even as I have kept my Father's com-
mandments', and abide in his love. These things
have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain
in you, and that your joy might be full. This is
my commandment,

That ye love one another,
As I have loved you.

" Greater love hath no man than this, that
From the a man ^ down his life for his
heart friends. Ye are my friends, if ve do

iPet. i : 22. whatsoever I command you. Hence-
forth I call you not servants; for the
servant knoweth not what his lord doeth : but I
have called you friends; for all things that I have
heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I havei chosen you,
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forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain : that whatsoever ye shall ask of £he whoie^
the Father in my name, he may give it word,
you. These things I command you, 0al5:1^
that ye love one another.

" If the world hate you, ye know that it hated
me before it hated you. If ye were of the world,
the world would love his own: but because ye are
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. Remem-
ber the word that I said unto you, The servant is
not greater than his lord. If they have perse-
cuted me, they will also persecute you; if they
have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for my
name's sake, because they know not him that sent
me. If I had not come and spoken unto
them, they had not had sin : but now JS^.1"* n,ot
they have no cloke for their sin. He 1 The*. 1 : 8.
that hateth me hateth my Father also.
If I had not done among them the works
which none other man did, they had not had sin :
but now have they both seen and hated both me
and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that
the word might be fulfilled that is written in their
law, They hated me without a cause. But
when the Comforter is come, whom I will send
unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall
testify of me: and ye also shall bear witness,
because ye have been with me from the beginning.

" These things have I spoken unto John ia
you, that ye should not be offended.
They shall put you out of the syna- ouff^my
gogues : yea, the time cometh, that who- names
soever killeth you will think that he jfa.66:5.
doeth God service. And these things
will they do unto you, because they have riot

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known the Father, nor me. Bub these things have
I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may
remember that- I told you of them. And these
things I said not unto you at the beginning,
because I was with you/'

" But now I go my way to him that sent me ;
and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
But because I have said these things unto you,
sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell
you the truth ; It is expedient for you that I go
away : for if I go not away, the Comforter will not
come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him
unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me;
of righteousnesiS, because I go to my Father, and
ye see me no more; of judgment, because the
prince of this world is judged. I have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them
now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is
comei, he will guide you into all truth : for he shall
not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall
hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you

things to come. He shall glorify me:
Jesus is for he shall receive of mine, and' shall
1 cor* 12: 3. show it unto you. All things that the

Father hath are mine: therefore said I,
that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto
you. A little while, and ye shall not see me : and
again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because
I go to the Father." Then said some of his dis-
ciples among themselves, ' What is this that he
saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see
me : and again, a little while, and ye shall see me :
and, Because I go to the Father?' They said
therefore, ( What is this that he saith, A little
while, we cannot tell what he saith/ Now Jesus
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unto them, " Do ye enquire among yourselves of
that I said, A little while, and ye shall
not see me : and again, a little while, The true
and ye shall see me ! Verily, verily I light
say unto you, That ye shall weep and sMneth.
lament, but the world shall rejoice : and l John 2 : 8-
yei shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is
in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come :
but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she
remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a
man is born into the world. And ye now there-
fore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man
taketh from you. And in that day ye shall ask
me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, What-
soever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he
will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing
in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your
joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto
you in proverbs: but the time cometh,
when I shall no more speak unto you in By the
proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of foAjfdays.
the Father. At that day ye shall ask in Act* 1 : 3.
my name : and I say not unto you, that
I will pray the Father for you : for the Father
himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and
have believed that I came out from God. I came
forth from the Father, and am come into the
world: again, I leave the world, and go to the
Father."

His disciples said unto him, ' Lo, now speakesb
thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are
we sure that thou know est all things, and needeb
not that any man should ask thee: by this we
believe that thou earnest forth from God/ Jesus
answered them, " Do ye now believe 1 Behold,
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be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave
me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the
Father is with me. These things I have spoken
unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In
the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of
good cheer; I have overcome the world."
_ _ „„ These words spake Jesus, and lifted

John 17. -, . .x , ? n . ,

up nis eyes to' heaven, and said,

" Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that

thy Son also may glorify thee : as thou hast given

him power over all flesh, that he should
to do thy give eternal life to as many as thou hast
mb'io-9 given nim- And this is life eternal,

that they might know thee the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I
have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished
the work which thou gavest me to do. And now,
O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee, before the
world was.

" I have manifested thy name unto the men
which thou gavest me out of the world : thine they
were, and thou gavest them me; and they have
kept thy word. Now they have known that all
things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
For I have given unto them the words which thou
gavest me ; and they have received them, and have
known surely that I came o<ut from thee, and they

have believed that thou didst send me.
f0rrafhf30t I pray for them: I pray not for the
peopi*- world, but for them which thou hast

given mo; for they are thine. And all
mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am
glorified in them. And now I am no* more in the
world, but these are in the world, and I come to
thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name
those whom tho«i hast given me, that they may be
one, as we are. While I was with them in the

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world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou
gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost,
but the son of perdition; that the scripture might
be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these
things I speak in the world, that they might have
my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them
thy word; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the evil. The word
They are not of the world, even as I am message,
not of the world. Sanctify them iz*«.si:U
through thy truth : thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have
I also sent them into the world. And for their
sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.

" Neither pray I for these alone, but for them
also which shall believe on me through
their word ; that they all may be one ; How shall
as thou, Father, art in me, and I in ^^Jj*^;
thee, that they also may be one in us : preacher ?
that the world may believe that thou Bom-10:1*
hast sent me. And the glory which
thou gavest me I have given them ; that they may
be one, even as we are one : I in them, and thou in
me, that they may be made perfect in one ; and
that the world may know that thou hast sent me,
and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou- hast
given me, be with me where I am ; that they may
behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for
thou lo'vedst me before the foundation of the
world. O righteous Father, the world hath not
known thee: but I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. And I have
declared unto them th\ name, and will declare it:

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thafc the love wherewith thou hast loved me may
be in them, and I in them." When Jesus had
J»hn 18: spoken these words, he went forth with
1-2 his disciples over the brook Cedron,

where was a garden, into the which he entered,
and his disciples And Judas also, which be*-
trayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes
resorted thither with his disciples.

Matt. 26. ^nd ^e ^00^ w^,n ^m Peter &nd ^ne

two sons of Zebedee, and began to* be

sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto

them, " My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto

death: tarry ye here, and watch with me." And

he went a little further, and fell on his face, and

prayed, saying, " O my Father, if it be possible,

let this cup pass from me: nevertheless! not as I

Luke Q2 : will, but as thou wilt/' And there

43"M# appeared an angel unto him from

heaven, strengthening him. And being in an

agony he prayed more, earnestly : and his1 sweat

waa as it were great drops of blood falling down

Watt 26- ^ the ^round'
40-47. * And he cometh unto the disciples,

and findeth them asleep, and saith

unto Peter, " What, could ye not watch with me

one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not

into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but

the flesh is weak." He went away again the

second time, and prayed, saying, " O my Father,

if this cup may not pass away from me, except I

drink it, thy will be done." And he came and

found them asleep again : for their eyes were

heavy. And he left them, and went away again,

and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

,Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto

them, " Sleep on now, and take your rest :

" Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of

man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise,

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let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth
betray me.;; And while he yet spake, lo, Judas,
one of the twelve, came, and with him a great
multitude with swords and staves, from the chief
priests and elders of the people. Jesus therefore,
knowing all things that should come Matt. 26
upon him, went forth, and said unto 48'56,
them, " Whom seek ye !" They answered John 18: *9'
him, ' Jesus of Nazareth.' Jesus saith unto them
" I am he." And Judas also-, which betrayed him.
stood with them. As soon then as he had said
unto them, " I am he," they went backward, and
fell to the ground. Then asked he them_ again,
"Whom seek ye?" And they said, 'Jesus of
Nazareth.' Jesus answered, " I have told you
that I am he : if therefore ye seek me, let these go
their way:" that the saying might be fulfilled,
which he spake,

" Of them which thou gayest me have I lost
none."

Now he that betrayed him gavs them a sign,
saying, ' Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he :
hold him fast/ And forthwith he came
to Jesus, and said, ' Hail, master ; and J^fo^ed
kissed him.' And Jesus said unto him, him a
"Friend, wherefore art thou come?" ^"11:8.
Then came they, and laid hands on
Jesus, and took him. And, behold, one of them
which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and
drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high
priest's, and smote off his ear. Then said Jesus
unto him, " Put up again thy sword into his
place : for all they that take the sword shall perish
with the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot now
pray to my Father, and he shall presently give
me more than twelve legions of angels? But how
then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it

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Luke 22 -si must be?" And Jesus answered and

said, " Suffer ye thus far." And he

touched his ear, and healed him. In that same

hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come

Matt. 28: out as against a thief with swords and

55"56- stave® for to take me ? I sat daily with

you teaching- in the temple, and ye laid no hold

on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures

of the prophets might be fulfilled."

Then all the disciples forsook him,

81-32. : and fled- And there followed him a

May it not certain young man, having a linen cloth

be laid to cast about his naked body ; and the
their 1-1111 i. -. -, -,,»

account. young men laid hold on him : and he left

the linen cloth, and fled from them.
naked. Then the band and the captain and
John 18 : officers of the Jews took Jesus, and
12-27. bound him, and led him away to Annas
first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which
was the high priest that same year. Now
Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews,
that it was expedient that one man should die for
the people.

And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did
another disciple : that disciple was known unto the
high priest, and went in with Jesus into the
palace of the high priest. But Peter stood at the
door without. Then went out that other disciple,
which was known untoi the high priest, and spake
unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto
Peter, ' Art not thou also one of this man's dis-
ciples V He saith, ' I am not' And the servants
and officers stood there, who had made a fire of
coals; for it was cold: and they warmed them-
selves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed
himself. The high priest then asked Jesus of
his disciples, and of his doctrine. Jesus answered

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him, " I spake openly to the world ; I ever taught
in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the
Jews always resort ; and in secret have I said
nothing. Why askest thou mel ask
them which heard me, what I have said {^J^^
unto them : behold, they know what I Acts. 23 : 3/
said." And when he had thus spoken,
one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with
the palm of his hand, saying, ' Answerest thou the
high priest so?? Jesus answered him, "If I have
spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well,
why smitest thou me ?" Now Annas had sent him
bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. And Simon
Peter stood and warmed himself. They said there-
fore unto him, ' Art not thou also* one of his dis-
ciples?' He denied it, and said, ' I am not/ One
of the servants of the high priest, being
his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, Pithless
saith, i Did not I see thee in the garden He abideth
with him?' Peter then denied again: l^^t: 13
and immediately the cock crew. And
Peter remembered the word of Jesus, Matt. 26: 7S.
which said unto him, Before the cock
crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went
out, and wept bitterly. Now the chief priests,
and elders, and all the council, sought Matt. 26 :
false witness against Jesus, to put him 59-68
to death ; but found none : yea, though many false
witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last
came two false witnesses, and said, ' This fellow
said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and
to build it in three days/ And the high priest
arose, and said unto him, ' Answerest thou
nothing? what is it which these witness against
thee?' But Jesus held his peace. And Thineown
the high priest answered and said unto mouth
him, ' I adjure thee by the living God, 5££*emI1
thai; thou tell us whether thou be the Job 15 :*

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Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith unto
him, " Thou hast said : nevertheless I say
unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man
sitting on the right hand of power, and com-
ing in the clouds of heaven.' ' Then the high
priest rent his clothes, saying, ' He hath spoken
blasphemy ; what further need have we of wit-
nesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
What think ye?' They answered and said, ' He
is guilty of death. ' Then did they spit in his face,
and buffeted him ; and others smote him with the
palms of their hands, saying, ' Prophesy unto us,
thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee V Then
led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of
John 18: judgment: and it was early; and they
28-32. themselves went not into the judgment
hall, lest they should be denied; but that th^y
might eat the passover. Pilate then went out

unto them, and said, i What accusation
Look to it bring ye against this man V They
Acts is : 15. ' answered and said unto him, ' If he were

not a malefactor, we would not have de-
livered him up unto thee.' Then said Pilate unto
them, ' Take ye him, and judge him according to
your law/ The Jews therefore said unto him, ' It
is not lawful for us to put any man to death :' that
the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he
spake, signifying what death he should die. And
Luke 23: 2. ^hey kegar* to accuse him, saying, 'We

found this fellow perverting the nation,
and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying
that he himself is Christ a King. Then Pilate
John 18: entered into the judgment hall again,
s3*38' and called Jesus, and said unto him,
* Art thou the King of the Jews?' Jesus answered
him, " Sayst thou this thing of thyself, or did
others tell it thee of me?" Pilate answered, ' Am
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.;ave delivered thee unto me: what hast thou
done?' Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of
this world : if my kingdom were of this world, then
would my servants fight, that I should not be
delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not
from hence." Pilate therefore said unto him,

* Art thou a king then V Jesus answered, " Thou
sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born,
and for this cause came I into the world, that I
should bear witness unto the truth. Every one
that is of the truth heareth my voice. " He cared
Pilate saith unto him, ' What is truth?' $l£oneof
And when he had said this, he went out things,
again unto the Jews, and saith unto Actsl8:YJ.
them, 'I find in him no fault at all/

And they were the more fierce, saying, Luke 23 ;

* He stirreth up the people, teaching, 5-12«
throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to
ihis place/ When Pilate heard of Galilee, he
*sked whether the man were a Galilean. And as
soon aa ho knew that he belonged unto Herod's
jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself
also was at Jerusalem at that time. And when
Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he
was desirous to see him of a long season, because he
had heard many things of him ; and he hoped to
have seen some miracle done by him. Then he
Questioned with him in many words; but he
answered him nothing. And the chief priests and
scribes stood and vehemently accused him. And
Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and
mocked him, and arrayed him in a
gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Therulers
Pilate. And the same day Pilate and take
Herod were made friends together: for together.
before they were at enmity between p*«- 2 : 2.
themselves. Now at that feast the M^to|7t
governor was wont to release unto the

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people a prisoner, whom they would. And they
had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate
said unto them, ' Whom will ye that I release unto
you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?'
For he knew that for envy they had delivered
him. When he was set down on the judgment
seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, ' Have thou
nothing to do with that just man: for I have
suffered many things this day in a dream because
of him.' But the chief priests and elders per-
suaded the multitude that they should ask
Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. The governor
answered and said unto them, ' Whether of the
twain will ye that I release unto you?' They
said, ' Barabbas. ' Pilate saith unto them, c What
shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ V
They all say unto him, ' Let him be crucified. '
And the governor said, ' Why, what evil hath he
done V But they cried out the more, saying, ' Let
him be crucified.' When Pilate saw that he could
prevail nothing, but that rather a
I am guilt- tumult was made, he took water, and
2Sam. 3:28. washed his hands before the multitude,
saying, ' I am innocent of the blood of
this just person : see ye to it.' Then answered all
the people, and said, ' His blood be on us, and on
John 19 : our children.' Then Pilate therefore
i-ie- took Jesus, and scourged him. And
the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put
it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
and said, ' Hail, King of the Jews!' and they smote
him with their hands. Pilate therefore went forth
again, and saith unto them, ' Behold, I bring him
forth to you, that ye may know that I find no
fault in him/ Then came Jesus forth, wearing
the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And
Pilate saith unto them, ' Behold the man !' When

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the chief priests therefore and officers saw him,
they cried out, saying, ' Crucify him, crucify him/
Pilate saith unto them, ' Take ye him, and crucify
him : for I find no fault in him/ The Jews
answered him, ' We have a law, and by our law he
ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God/ When Pilate therefore heard that saying,
he was the more afraid; and went again into the
judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, ' Whence art
thou?' But Jesus gave him no- answer.
Then saith Pilate unto him, ' Speakest No power
thou not unto me ? knowest thou not Rom. u ; 1
that I have power to crucify thee, and
have power to release thee?' Jesns answered,
" Thou couldest have no power at all against me,
except it were given thee from above : therefore he
that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin."
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him :
but the Jews cried out, saying, ' If thou let this
man go, thou art not Caesar's friend : whosoever
maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

When Pilate therefore heard that say- Hon
ing, he brought Jesus forth, and sat the King,
down in the judgment seat in a place ip^r2:
that is called the Pavement, but in the
Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation
of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he
saith unto the Jews, ' Behold your King!' But
they cried out, ' Away with him, away with him,
crucify him/ Pilate saith unto them, ' Shall I
crucify your King?' The chief priests answered,
' We have no king but Caesar/ Then delivered
he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
they took Jesus, and led him away.

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, Matt. 27:
when he saw that he was condemned, 8'10,
repented himself, and brought again the thirty
pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

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saying, ' I have sinned in that I have

betrayed the innocent blood/ And
was nT561 they said, ' What is that to us? see thou
followed. to that/ And he cast down the pieces
of silver in the temple, and departed,
and went and hanged himself. And
the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said.
1 It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury,
because it is the price of blood.' And they tooi
counsel, and bought with them tke potter's field,
to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was
called, The field of blood, unto this day. Then
was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy
the prophet, saying, ' And they took the thirty
pieces of silver,

The price of him that was valued,

Whom they of the children of Israel did

value ;
And gave them for the potter's field,
As the Lord appointed me/

And as they led him away, they laid
hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, com-
ing out of the country, and on him they laid the
cross, that he might bear it after Jesus. And
there followed him a great company of people, and
of women, which also' bewailed and lamented him.
But Jesus turning unto them said, " Daughters of
Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for your-
selves, and for your children. For, behold, the
days are coming, in the which they shall say,
Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never
bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then
shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on
us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do
these things in a green tree, what shall be done in
the dry?" And there were also two others, male-
factors, led with him to be put to death. And
when they were come to the place, which is called

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Calvary, there they crucified him, and the male-
factors, one on the right hand, and the other o»
the left. Then said Jesus, "Father, for- Had they
give them: for they know not what known it.
they do." And Pilate wrote a title, 1^,2i:ll8

t i. -i 11 a i n i. John 19?

and put it on the cross. And the writ- 19-24.
ing was,

JESUS OF NAZARETH
THE KING OF THE JEWS.

This title then read many of the Jews: for the

place where Jesus was crucified was nigh

to the city : and it was written in Both to

Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. Then Barbarian

said the chief priests of the Jews to Rom 1 : 14.

Pilate, 'Write not, The King of the

Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

Pilate answered, ' What I have written I have

written/

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified
Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to
every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the
coat was without seam, woven from the top
throughout. They said therefore among them-
selves, 'Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose
it shall be ' : that the scripture might be fulfilled,
which saith,

They parted my raiment among them,
And for my yesture they did cast lots.
These things therefore the soldiers did.

• IVTatt 27 *

And they that passed by reviled him, 39.43. *
wagging their heads, and saying, ' Thou
that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three
days, save thyself. If thou be the Son
of God, come down from the cross/ He opened
Likewise also the chief priests mocking Jj^uSi8
him, with the scribes and elders, said, isa. 53 : 7
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save. If lie be the King of Israel, let him now
come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
He trusted in God ; let him deliver him now, if he
will have him : for he said, I am the Son of God/
Luke 23: And one of the malefactors which

39-53. were hanged railed on him, saying, ' If

thou be Christ, save thyself and us/ But the

other answering rebuked him, saying,
inter-8, e ' Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art
feSStSn *n ^e' same' condemnation? And we

trans- indeed justly; for we receive the due

fJa.S5S3°f 12. reward of our deeds : but this man hath

done nothing amis®/ And he said unto
Jesus, ' Lord, remember me when thou comest
into thy kingdom/ And Jesus said unto him,

,c Yerily I say unto thee,

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise."

Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his
mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of
Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus
therefore saw his mother^ and the disciple stand-
ing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother,
" Woman, behold thy son ! " Then saith he to
the disciple, " Behold thy mother ! " And from
that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Matt. 27: Now from the sixth hour there was

4S-*7* darkness over all the land unto the
ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, " Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani?" that is to say, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them
that stood there, when they heard that, said, ' This
man calleth for Elias/ After this, Jesus knowing

John 19 : that all things were now accomplished,

28-30. that the scripture might be fulfilled,

saith, <lI thirst." Now there was set a vessel full

of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar,

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and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he
said, " It is finisiisi." And when Jesus had
cried with a loud voice, he said,
"Father, into thy hands I commend Luke23:46-
my spirit:" and having said thus, he gave up the
ghost. And, behold, the veil of the
temple was rent in twain from the top M|"56.7:
to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, Enter int:>
and the rocks rent ; and the graves were the Holy
opened; and many bodies of the saints f^jf^'o : 19.
which slept arose, and came out of the
graves after his resurrection, and went into the
holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when
the centurion, and they that were with him,
watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those
things that were done, they feared greatly, saying,
' Truly this was the Son of God.' And^ many
women were there beholding afar off, which fol-
lowed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him :
among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the
mother of James and Joses [Salome], and the
mother of Zebeclee's children.

! Hermoii

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CHAPTER X

Zhe final Jforty Ba^s

^■p^HB Jews therefore, because Johnl9j
( 1 it was the preparation, that p^Iv
^1^ the bodies should not remain Not until the
upon the cross on the sabbath ™°™i}12g: i0#
day, (for that sabbath day was an high
day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away. Then
came the soldiers, [and brake the legs of the first,
and of the other which was crucified with Him.
But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was
dead already, they brake not his legs : But one of
the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
forthwith came there out blood and water. And
he that saw it bare record, and his record is true ;
and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might
believe. For these things were done, that the
scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall
not be broken. And again another scripture
saith, They shall look on him whom they
pierced.

When the even was come there came Matt# 27 .
a rich man of Arimathaea, named 57-66. *
Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' in his death.
disciple : He went to Pilate, and begged Isa- 53 : 9*
the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the
body to be delivered. And when Joseph had taken
the body he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and

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laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn
out in the rock : and he rolled a great stone to the
door of the sepulchre, and departed. And there
was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting
over against the sepulchre. Now the next day, that
followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests
and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying,
* Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he
was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Command therefore that the sepulchre be made
Thine own sure until the third day, lest his disciples
lips testify, come by night, and steal him away,

Job 9 : 20. -j J ? !, i tt • *

and say unto the people, He is risen
from the dead : so the last error shall be worse than
the first.' Pilate said unto them, ' Ye have a
watch : go your way, make it as sure as ye can.'
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing
the stone, and setting a watch.
Matt.25:i-i5. In the end of the sabbath, as it
Consult began to dawn toward the first day of

Mark 16. the week, came Mary Magdalene and
the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold,
there was a great earthquake : for the angel of the
Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled
back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His
countenance was like lightning, and his raiment
white as snow : And for fear of him the keepers did
shake, and became as dead men. And the angel
answered and said unto the women, ' Fear not ye :
fori know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
He is not here : for he is risen, as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly,
and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead ;
and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee;
there shall ye see him : lo, I have told you. And
they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear
and great joy ; and did run to bring his disciples

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word. And as they went to tell his disciple^,
behold, Jesus met them, saying, "All hail.,, And they
came and held him by the feet, and worshipped
him. Then said Jesus unto them, "Be not afraid :
go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and
there shall they see me." Now when they were
going, behold, some of the watch came into the
city, and shewed unto the chief priests all
the things that were done. And when they were
assembled with the elders, and had
taken counsel, they gave large money That they
unto the soldiers, saying, ' Say ye, His X* believe
disciples came by night, and stole him 2 T}ies< 2: U-
away while we slept. And if this come
to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and
secure you.' So they took the money, and did
as they were taught : and this saying is commonly
reported among the Jews until this day. jOhn20:3-i8.
Peter therefore went forth, and that
other disciple [whom Jesus loved] , and came to
the sepulchre. So they ran both together : and the
other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to
the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and look-
ing in, saw the linen clothes lying ; yet went he not
in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and
went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen
clothes lie, and the napkin, that was about his head,
not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped to-
gether in a place by itself. Then went in also that
other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre,
and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew
not the scripture, that he must rise again from the
dead. Then the disciples went away again intc
their own home [where was the mother of Jesus] .

But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weep-
ing : and as she wept, she stopped down, and

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looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels
in white sitting, the one at the head, the other
at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
And they say unto her, ' Woman, why weepest thou ?'
She saith unto them, ' Because they have taken awTay
my Lord, and I know not where they have laid
him.' And when she had thus said, she turned her-
self back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not

that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her,
1 °tI £W4 ;ni3." " Woman, why weepest thou? whom

seekest thou?" She, supposing him
to be the gardener, saith unto him, ' Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid
him, and I will take him away.' Jesus saith unto
her, " Mary." She turned herself, and saith unto
him, ' Rabboni,' which is to say, Master. Jesus
saith unto her, " Touch me not ; for I am not yet
ascended to my Father : but go to my brethren,
and say unto them, ' I ascend unto my Father,
and your Father ; and to my God, and your God.' "
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that
she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken
these things unto her.

And behold, two of them went that
Luke 24: 13-43. same day to a village called Emmaus,

wmich was from Jerusalem about three-
score furlongs. And they talked together of
all these things which had happened. And it
came to pass, that, while they communed to-
gether and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near,
and went wTith them. But their eyes were holden
that they should not know him. And he said unto
them, " What manner of communications are these
that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are
sad?" And the one of them, whose name was
Cleopas, answering said unto him,' ' Art thou only
a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the

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things which are come to pass there in these
days ? ' And he said unto them, " What things ? "
And they said unto him, ' Concerning Jesus of
Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and
word before God and all the people : and how the
chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be
condemned to death, and have crucified him. But
we trusted that it had been he which should have
redeemed Israel : and beside all this, to-day is the
third day since these things were done. Yea, and
certain women also of our company made us
astonished, which were early afe the sepulchre ; and
when they found not his body, they came, saying,
that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said
that he was alive. And certain of them which were
with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as
the women had said : but him they saw not. Then
he said unto them, " O fools, and slow He thus
of heart to believe all that the prophets fulfilled,
have spoken : Ought not Christ to have
suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? "
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he
expounded unto them in all the scriptures the
things concerning himself. And they drew nigh
unto the village, whither they went : and he made
as though he wrould have gone further. But they
constrained him, saying, ' Abide with us : for it is
toward evening, and the day is far spent.' And he
went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass,
as he sat at meat with them, he took bread,
and blessed it, and brake and gave to Thathe
them. And their eyes were opened, may see.
and they knew him ; and he vanished mgs (
out of their sight. And they said one to another,
1 Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked
with us by the way, and while he opened to us the
scriptures? ' And they rosp- up the same hour, and

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returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven
(fathered together, and them that were with
them, saying, ' The Lord is risen indeed, and hath
appeared to Simon/ And they told what things
were done in the way, and how he was known
of them in breaking of bread.

And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood
in the midst of them, and saith unto them, "Peace
be unto you.,, But they were terrified and
affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a
spirit. And he said unto them, " Why are ye
Our hands troubled ? and why do thoughts arise
handled. in your hearts? Behold my hands
and my feet, that it is I myself : handle
me and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones,
as ye see me have/' And when he had thus
spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
And while they yet believed not for joy, and
wondered, he said unto them, "Have ye here any
meat?" And they gave him a piece of a broiled
fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and
did eat before them. Then were the disciples

John 29: ghid, when they saw the Lord. Then
20-29. said Jesus to them again, " Peace be
unto you : as my Father hath sent me, even so send
I you/' And when he had said this, he breathed
on them, and saith unto them, " Receive ye the
Holy Ghost : Whose soever sins ya remit, they are
remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye
retain, they are retained/' But Thomas, one of the
twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when
Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto
him, * We have seen the Lord/ But he said unto
them, ' Except I shall see in his hands the print of
the nails, and put my finger into the print of
the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will
not believe/ Apd after eight days again his

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disciples were within, and Thomas with them :
then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood
in the midst, and said, " Peace be unto you." Then
saith he to Thomas, " Reach hither thy finger, and
behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and
thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but
believing." And Thomas answered and Conflrmed
said unto him, ' My Lord and my God.' by them
Jesus saith unto him, " Thomas, because H% 2h:e?rd'
thou hast seen me, thou hast believed : blessed are
they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

After these things Jesus shewed himself again to
the disciples at the sea of Tiberias;
and on this wise shewed he himself. ° n21'^1*3
There were together Simon Peter, and Thodo.cs
called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his
disciples. Simon Peter saith unto them, * I go
a fishing.' They say unto him, ' We also go with
thee.' They went forth, and entered into a ship
immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood
on the shore : but the disciples knew a cake of
not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus bre^ci
saith unto them, "Children, have ye Judges! %\z.
any meat? " They answered him, ■ No.' And he
paid unto them, " Cast the net on the right side of
the ship, and ye shall find." They cast therefore,
and now they were not able to draw it for the
multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom
Jesus loved saith unto Peter, ' It is the Lord/ Now
when bimon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he
girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked),
and did cast himself into the sea. And the other
disciples came in a little ship ; (for they were not
far from 'land, but as it were two hundred cubits,)
dragging the net with fishes. As soon then as they

196 THE MAN OF GALILEE

were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there,
and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto
them, " Bring of the fish which ye have now
caught/' Simon Peter went up, and drew the net
to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty
and three : and for all there were so

wUhthee*11 many> Je^ was no^ ^he ne* broken.
Acts 27 : 24. Jesus saith unto them, "Come and dine."
And none of the disciples durst ask him,
1 Who art thou ? ' knowing that it was the
Lord. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and
giveth them, and fish likewise. This is now the
third time that Jesus shewed himself to his
disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.

So when they had dined. Jesus saith to
Manifold ^imon Peter, " Simon, son of Jonas
trials. lovest1 thou me more than these [do] ? "

1 Peter 1:6, He ^.^ ^^ j^ , Yea, Loid:

thou knowest that I love thee.' He said

unto him, " Feed my lambs." He saith to him

again the second time, "Simon, son of Jonas,

lovest1 thou me ? " He saith unto him,

indicate ' ^ea' ^^ 5 tnou knowest that I love2
different thee/ He saith unto him, " Feed my
SriginJu*116 sheep." He saith unto Simon the
third time, " Simon, son of Jonas, lovest2
thou me?" Peter was grieved because he said
unto him the third time [in his own word] , " Lovest'
thou me ? " And he said unto him, ' Lord, thou
knowest all things ; thou knowest that I [do at
leasfc] love thee.' Jesus saith unto him, " Feed
my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When
thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and
walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when thou
shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,
and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither
thou wouldest not." This spake he, signifying by

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what death he should glorify God. And when he
had spoken this, he saith unto him, "Follow me."

Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple
whom Jesus loved following ; which also leaned on
his breast afc supper, and said, ' Lord, which is he
that betrayeth thee?' Peter seeing him saith to Jesus,
1 Lord, and what shall this man do ? ' Jesus saith
unto him, *' If I will that he tarry till I Press on
come, what is that to theo ? follow thou *Mi.s:it-i*
me." Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren, that that disciple should not die : yet Jesus
said not unto him, "He shall not die; but, If I will
that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? "

Then the eleven disciples went away into
Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus
had appointed them. And when they 28MCh20
saw him, they worshipped him : but
some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto
them, saying, u All power is given unto me in
heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost :
Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: Speak, for

tit ^i i ^ I am with

and, lo, 1 am with you alway, even unto thee
the end of the world." And, being ^sl8:9
assembled together with them, commanded them
that they should not depart from
Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of
the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of
me. For John truly baptized with water ;
but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost
not many days hence. "When they therefore
were come together, they asked of him, sayin^
' Lord wilt thou at this time restore
again the kingdom to Israel?' And i°n%XiXel
he said unto them, (( It is not for you to 1 Th€S- **

198 .THE MAN OF GALILEE

know the times or the seasons, which the
Father hath put in his own power. But ye
shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me
both in Jerusalem, and inall Judaea, and in Samaria
and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Luke 24 : And he said unto them, '* These are
«-53. the words which I spake unto you,
while I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses,
and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning
me. Then opened he their understanding, that
they might understand the Scriptures, and said
unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third
day : And that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of
these things. And, behold, I send the promise of
my Father upon you : but tarry ye in the city of
Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on
high/'

The King of And he led them out as far as to
glory stiaii Bethany, and he lifted up his hands
BOp«a. 24 : 7. and blessed them. And it came to pass,
while he blessed them, he was parted
from them, and carried up into heaven. And they
worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with
great joy : And were continually in the temple,
praising and blessing God. Amen.

THE ETERNAL MEANING J 99

TTbe Eternal /iDeaning

In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. The same was in the beginning with
God. All things were made by him ; and without
him was not any thing made that was made. In
him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness ; and the
darkness comprehended it not.

There was a man sent from God, whose name
was John. The same came for a witness, to bear
witness of the Light, that all men through him
might believe. He was not that Light, but was
sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the
true light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. He was in the world, and the
world was made by him, and the world knew him
not. He came unto his own, and his own received
him not. But as many as received him, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name : Which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God, And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth.

XTbe Eternal purpose

And many other signs truly did Jesus

in the presence of his disciples, which Jo^q^° :

are not written in this book : But these

are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the

Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye

might have life through his name.

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